One-party state































A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of state in which one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties are either outlawed or allowed to take only a limited and controlled participation in elections. Sometimes the term de facto one-party state is used to describe a dominant-party system that, unlike the one-party state, allows (at least nominally) democratic multiparty elections, but the existing practices or balance of political power effectively prevent the opposition from winning the elections.




Contents






  • 1 Concept


  • 2 Examples


    • 2.1 Current one-party states


    • 2.2 Former one-party states


      • 2.2.1 Former big tent modernization one-party states


      • 2.2.2 Former left-wing one-party states


      • 2.2.3 Former Marxist–Leninist one-party countries


      • 2.2.4 Former right-wing one-party states


      • 2.2.5 Former fascist or nationalist one-party states






  • 3 See also


  • 4 Notes


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Concept


One-party states explain themselves through various methods. Most often, proponents of a one-party state argue that the existence of separate parties runs counter to national unity. Others argue that the one party is the vanguard of the people, and therefore its right to rule cannot be legitimately questioned. The Soviet government argued that multiple parties represented the class struggle, which was absent in Soviet society, and so the Soviet Union only had one party, namely the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


Some one-party states only outlaw opposition parties, while allowing allied parties to exist as part of a permanent coalition such as a popular front. However, these parties are largely or completely subservient to the ruling party and must accept the ruling party’s monopoly of power as a condition of their existence. Examples of this are the People's Republic of China under the United Front, the National Front in former East Germany and the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland in North Korea. Others may allow non-party members to run for legislative seats, as was the case with Taiwan’s Tangwai movement in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the elections in the former Soviet Union.


Within their own countries, dominant parties ruling over one-party states are often referred to simply as the Party. For example, in reference to the Soviet Union, the Party meant the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; in reference to the pre-1991 Republic of Zambia, it referred to the United National Independence Party.


Most one-party states have been ruled by parties forming in one of the following three circumstances:



  1. an ideology of Marxism–Leninism and international solidarity (such as the Soviet Union for most of its existence)

  2. some type of nationalist or fascist ideology (such as Italy under Benito Mussolini)

  3. parties that came to power in the wake of independence from colonial rule. One-party systems often arise from decolonization because a single party gains an overwhelmingly dominant role in liberation or in independence struggles.


One-party states are usually considered to be authoritarian, to the extent that they are politically totalitarian. On the other hand, not all authoritarian or totalitarian states operate upon one-party rule. Some, especially amongst absolute monarchies and military dictatorships, have no need for a ruling party, and therefore make all political parties illegal.


The term “communist state” is often used in the West to apply to states in which the ruling party subscribes to a form of Marxism–Leninism. However, such states do not use that term themselves, seeing communism as a phase to develop after the full maturation of socialism, and instead often use the titles of “people's republic”, “socialist republic”, or “democratic republic”. One peculiar example is Cuba. While the role of the Communist Party is enshrined in the constitution, no party is permitted to campaign or run candidates for election, including the Communists. Candidates are elected on an individual referendum basis without formal party involvement, though elected assemblies predominantly consist of members of the Communist Party alongside non-affiliated candidates.[1]



Examples




Countries by their form of government:

  Presidential republics with a full presidential system

  Presidential republics with a semi-presidential system

  Parliamentary republics with an executive president chosen by the parliament

  Parliamentary republics with a ceremonial president where the prime minister is the executive

  Constitutional monarchies where executive power is vested in a prime minister

  Constitutional monarchies which have a separate head of government but where royalty hold political power

  Absolute monarchies

  Military dictatorships

  One-party states

  Countries that do not fit in any of the above listed systems (other systems or in transition)

  No government




Current one-party states


As of 2019[update] the following countries are legally constituted as one-party states:











































































Country
Head of party
Party
Head of popular front
Popular Front
Date of establishment
Duration

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Kim Jong-un, Chairman

Workers' Party of Korea


Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland
October 10, 1945

7004267730000000000♠73 years, 110 days

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Bounnhang Vorachith, General Secretary

Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Xaysomphone Phomvihane, President of the Standing Committee

Lao Front for National Construction
December 2, 1975

7004157630000000000♠43 years, 57 days

People's Republic of China

Xi Jinping, General Secretary

Communist Party of China

Wang Yang, Chairman of National CPPCC
You Quan, Head of the Department

United Front
October 1, 1949

7004253210000000000♠69 years, 119 days

Republic of Cuba

Raúl Castro, First Secretary

Communist Party of Cuba


January 1, 1959

7004219420000000000♠60 years, 27 days

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Brahim Ghali, Secretary General

Polisario Front


February 27, 1976

7004156760000000000♠42 years, 335 days

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Nguyễn Phú Trọng, General Secretary

Communist Party of Vietnam
Trần Thanh Mẫn, Chairman

Vietnamese Fatherland Front
April 30, 1975

7004159790000000000♠43 years, 273 days

State of Eritrea

Isaias Afwerki, Chairperson

People's Front for Democracy and Justice


February 10, 1994

7003911800000000000♠24 years, 352 days


Former one-party states



Former big tent modernization one-party states



















































Country
Party
Date of establishment
Date of dissolution

 Turkey

Republican People's Party
1923
1945

 Mexico

Institutional Revolutionary Party
1929
2000

 Cameroon

Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
1975
1990

 Tunisia

Neo Destour
1963
1964

 Tunisia

Socialist Destourian Party
1964
1981

 Republic of China

Kuomintang
1925
1990

Syrian Republic

Arab Liberation Movement
1953
1954


Former left-wing one-party states























































































































































































































































Country
Party
Front
Date of establishment
Date of dissolution

 Algeria

National Liberation Front

1962
1989

Angola

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola

1975
1991

 Bangladesh

Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League

1974
1975

Myanmar Burma

Burma Socialist Programme Party

1962
1988

 Cape Verde

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

1975
1980

African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde

1980
1990

 Central African Republic

Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa

1962
1980

Republic of China (Nationalist government)
  • Xinjiang


  • People's Anti-Imperialist Association


1925
  • 1935

1948
  • 1942


 Djibouti

People's Rally for Progress

1977
1992

 Egypt

Arab Socialist Union

1962
1976

Eritrea

Eritrean People's Liberation Front

1993
1994

Ethiopia
  • Eritrea


  • Eritrean People's Liberation Front



  • 1991


  • 1993


 Ghana

Convention People's Party

1964
1966

 Guinea

Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally

1958
1984

 Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

1974
1991

 Indonesia

Indonesian National Party

1945
1945

Iraq

Iraqi Arab Socialist Union

1964
1968

Iraq

Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

National Progressive Front
1968
2003

Libya Libya

Libyan Arab Socialist Union

1971
1977

Madagascar Democratic Republic of Madagascar

National Front for the Defense of the Revolution

1976
1989

 Mali

Democratic Union of the Malian People

1976
05/04/1991[2]

 Mauritania

Mauritanian People's Party

1961
1978

 São Tomé and Príncipe

Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party

1975
1990

 Senegal

Socialist Party of Senegal

1966
1974

 Seychelles

Seychelles People's Progressive Front

1977
1991

 Sierra Leone

All People's Congress

1978
1991

Sudan Democratic Republic of the Sudan

Sudanese Socialist Union

1971
1985

 Syria

Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

National Progressive Front
1963
2011

 Tanzania

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

1977
1992

 Tanganyika

Tanganyika African National Union

1961
1977

 Uganda

Uganda People's Congress

1969
1971

 United Arab Republic

National Union

1958
1961

 Zambia

United National Independence Party

1972
1990

 Zanzibar

Afro-Shirazi Party

1964
1977


Former Marxist–Leninist one-party countries












































































































































































































































































































































































































































Country
Party
Popular Front
Date of establishment
Date of dissolution

Afghanistan

People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

National Fatherland Front
24/12/1980
27/06/1990

Democratic Government of Albania

Party of Labour of Albania

National Liberation Movement
20/10/1944
05/08/1945

Democratic Front
05/08/1945
11/01/1946

People's Republic of Albania


People's Socialist Republic of Albania



Party of Labour of Albania

Democratic Front
11/01/1946
11/12/1990

Angola People's Republic of Angola

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola

11/11/1975
10/12/1977

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party

10/12/1977
31/05/1991

Armenia

Communist Party of Armenia

1920
1922

Azerbaijan

Communist Party of Azerbaijan

1920
1922

Benin Benin

People's Revolutionary Party of Benin

1975
1990

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party

Fatherland Front
1946
1990

Byelorussia

Communist Party of Byelorussia

1920
1922

Chinese Soviet Republic

Communist Party of China

1930
1937

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

National Front
1948
1989

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea

Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland
30/06/1949
19/02/1992

East Germany East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Democratic Bloc
1949
1950

National Front of Democratic Germany
1950
1973

National Front of the German Democratic Republic
1973
1989

Estonia

Russian Communist Party
(Central Committee of the Estonian Sections)

1918
1919

Estonia

Communist Party of Estonia

1940
1940

Ethiopia

Workers' Party of Ethiopia

1984
1987

Ethiopia

Workers' Party of Ethiopia

1987
1991

Finland

Communist Party of Finland

1939
1940

Georgia

Communist Party of Georgia

1921
1922

Grenada Grenada

New Jewel Movement

1979
1983

Guangzhou

Communist Party of China

1927
1927

Hunan

Communist Party of China

1927
1927

Hungary

Hungarian Working People's Party

1949
1956

Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

1956
1989

Jinggang

Communist Party of China

1927
1928

Kampuchea

Communist Party of Kampuchea

1975
1982

Kampuchea

Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party

1979
1991

Latvia

Communist Party of Latvia

1918
1920

Latvia

Communist Party of Latvia

1940
1940

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

1921
1990

Mozambique

FRELIMO

1975
1990

North Vietnam North Vietnam

Workers' Party of North Vietnam

League for the Independence of Vietnam
1945
1946

Vietnamese National Popular Front
1951
1955

Vietnamese Fatherland Front
1955
1976

Lithuania

Communist Party of Lithuania

1940
1940

Lithuania–Byelorussia

Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia

1919
1919

Republic of the Congo People's Republic of the Congo

Congolese Party of Labour

1969
1990

Persia

Communist Party of Persia

1920
1921

Poland

Polish United Workers' Party

Front of National Unity
1947
1983

Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth
1983
1989

Romania

Romanian Communist Party

People's Democratic Front
1948
1968

Front of Socialist Unity
1968
1980

Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy
1980
1989

Russia


Soviet Russian Republic




Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic



Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

19/01/1918
08/03/1918[3]

Russian Communist Party

08/03/1918[3]
30/12/1922

Somalia Somalia

Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party

1976
1991

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party

1978
1990

Southwest Jiangxi

Communist Party of China

1930
1931

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Russian Communist Party

30/12/1922
31/12/1925[3]

All-Union Communist Party

31/12/1925[3]
13/10/1952[3]

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

13/10/1952[3]
09/10/1990[4]

Transcaucasia

Communist Part of Armenia

1922
1922

Communist Party of Azerbaijan

1922
1922

Communist Party of Georgia

1922
1922

Tuvan

Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party

1921
1944

Ukraine

Communist Party of Ukraine

1919
1922

Yan'an

Communist Party of China

1937
1949

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party

1994
1994

Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia
1945
1990


Former right-wing one-party states



















































Country
Party
Date of establishment
Date of dissolution

Hawaii

Reform Party of Hawaii
1894
1898

 Gabon

Gabonese Democratic Party
1968
1990

 Iran

Islamic Republican Party
1981
1987

 Malawi

Malawi Congress Party
1964
1993

 Niger

National Movement for the Development of Society
1989
1991

 Rwanda

National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
1978
1991

Kingdom of Spain

  • Guinea

  • Morocco

  • Sahara

  • Sidi Ifni



Spanish Patriotic Union
1924
1930


Former fascist or nationalist one-party states













































































































































































































































































































































































































































Country
Party
National front
Date of establishment
Date of dissolution

Republic of Afghanistan

National Revolutionary Party

24/02/1977[5][6]
28/04/1978

Albanian Kingdom

Albanian Fascist Party

02/06/1939
27/07/1943

Guard of Greater Albania

27/07/1943
08/09/1943

Albanian Kingdom

National Front

14/09/1943
29/11/1944

Federal State of Austria

Fatherland Front

01/05/1934
13/03/1938

Republic of Burundi

Union for National Progress

11/07/1974
13/03/1992

Republic of Cameroon

Cameroonian National Union

01/09/1966[7]
24/03/1985

Central African Republic

Central African Democratic Union

01/03/1980
02/09/1981

Central African Democratic Rally

06/02/1987
22/04/1991[8]

Republic of Chad

Chadian Progressive Party

16/04/1962
06/04/1973

National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution

06/04/1973
13/04/1975

National Union for Independence and Revolution

1984
1990

 Comoros

Comorian Union for Progress

1982
1990

Independent State of Croatia

Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement

10/04/1941
08/05/1945

Dahomey

Dahomeyan Unity Party

1961
1963

Dahomeyan Democratic Party

1963
1965

Dominican Republic Dominican Republic

Dominican Party

1931
1961

 Egypt

National Democratic Party

1956
1958

1961
1962

El Salvador El Salvador

National Pro Patria Party

1931
1944

 Equatorial Guinea

United National Workers Party

1970
1979

Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea

1987
1991

Republic of Estonia

Patriotic League

National Front for the Implementation of the Constitution
09/03/1935
21/07/1940

German Reich
  • Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia



Greater German Reich


  • Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia


National Socialist German Workers' Party
  • National Partnership


14/07/1933
  • 21/03/1939

23/05/1945
  • 09/05/1945


Guatemala Guatemala

Progressive Liberal Party

1931
1944

Haiti Haiti

National Unity Party

1957
1985

Hungary
  • Government of National Unity


Arrow Cross Party

16/10/1944
07/05/1945

India

Azad Hind Dal

21/10/1943
18/08/1945

Iran Imperial State of Iran

Rastakhiz Party

1975
1978

Kingdom of Italy

  • Cyrenaica

  • East Africa

  • Eritrea

  • Fezzan

  • Islands of the Aegean

  • Libya

  • Somaliland

  • Tientsin

  • Tripolitania



National Fascist Party
  • Muslim Association of the Lictor


17/05/1928[9]
  • 09/01/1939

27/07/1943
  • 27/07/1943


Italian Social Republic

  • Islands of the Aegean

  • Tientsin



Republican Fascist Party

13/09/1943
28/04/1945

 Ivory Coast

Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire – African Democratic Rally

1960
1990

 Kenya

Kenya African National Union

1982
1991

Lithuania Lithuania

Lithuanian Nationalist Union

1927
1940

Manchukuo

Concordia Association

01/04/1932[10]
01/05/1934[10]

Empire of Manchuria

Concordia Association

01/05/1934[10]
25/07/1934[10]

Manchurian Empire Concordia Association

25/07/1934[10]
15/08/1945[10]

Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories

National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands

14/12/1941
06/05/1945

 Niger

Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally

1960
1974

 North Yemen

General People's Congress

1982
1988

Nazi Germany Norway
  • Norway National Government


National Gathering

01/02/1942
09/05/1945

Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire

Committee of Union and Progress

1913
1918

Paraguay Paraguay

Colorado Party

1947
1962

Philippine Executive Commission

Association for Service to the New Philippines

08/12/1942
14/10/1943

Republic of the Philippines

Association for Service to the New Philippines

14/10/1943
17/08/1945

Portugal Portugal

  • Portugal Angola

  • Portugal Congo

  • Portugal Guinea

  • Portugal India

  • Portugal Macau

  • Portugal Mozambique

  • Portugal São João Baptista de Ajudá

  • Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe

  • Portugal Timor



National Union

30/07/1930[11]
08/10/1945[11]

31/01/1948[12]
25/04/1974

Romania Romania
  • Romania National Legionary State


National Renaissance Front

16/12/1938
21/06/1940

Party of the Nation

21/06/1940
06/09/1940

Iron Guard

14/09/1940
23/01/1941

 Rwanda

Parmehutu

1965
1973

San Marino San Marino

Sammarinese Fascist Party

1926
1943

Republican Fascist Party of San Marino

1943
1944

Slovak Republic

Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity

14/03/1939
08/05/1945

Spanish State

  • Guinea

  • Ifni

  • Morocco

  • Sahara

  • Sidi Ifni

  • West Africa



Falange

19/04/1937
06/07/1976[13]

 Sudan

National Congress Party

1989
2005

 Togo

Party of Togolese Unity

1962
1963

Rally of the Togolese People

1969
1991

 Turkmenistan

Democratic Party of Turkmenistan

1992
2008

Republic of Upper Volta Upper Volta

Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally

1960
1966

Yugoslavia

Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy

1929
1931

Zaire Zaire

Popular Movement of the Revolution

1970
1990


See also



  • Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  • Political organisation

  • Dominant-party system

  • Political factionalism

  • Outline of democracy

  • Multi-party system

  • Two-party system

  • List of political party songs



Notes





References





  1. ^ Cuba: Elections and Events 1991–2001 Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine Latin American Election Statistics Home


  2. ^ 24. Mali (1960-present)


  3. ^ abcdef The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis By Jane Henderson


  4. ^ Ideology And Political System By Kundan Kumar


  5. ^ Afghanistan: A Country Study


  6. ^ Afghanistan 1977


  7. ^ The Search for a Cameroonian Model of Democracy or the Search for the Domination of the State Party: 1966-2006


  8. ^ Central African Republic Unions Strike for Democracy 1990-1993


  9. ^ Mediterranean Fascism 1919–1945


  10. ^ abcdef China at War: Regions of China, 1937-1945


  11. ^ ab 12th Period - Second Republic of Portugal


  12. ^ Fascism and Resistance in Portugal: Communists, Liberals and Military


  13. ^ Law 21/1976, of June 14, on the Right of Political Association.




External links



  • Map of One Party States, 1945-95


  • One-party states in Africa BBC

  • List of One-Party Regimes











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