single-party rule
Monopolized political control
Single-party rule is a system of government in which one political party holds power without meaningful electoral competition.
Opposition parties may be banned outright or exist only nominally, unable to challenge the ruling party's dominance.
The country has been under single-party rule since the revolution.
The term often carries connotations of authoritarianism, though some single-party states maintain broad popular support.
- planned economyCentralized resource allocation system
- apparatchikBlindly devoted official
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
Soviet Union · collectivization · communism · rubber stamp · authoritarianism · oligarchy · centralization · Eastern Bloc · supreme leader · political repression · show trial · political purge · five-year plans · autocracy · cult of personality · iron fist · People's Republic of China · Nazi Germany
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- Totalitarianismtotalitarianism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, secret police, political repression
- Turkish RepublicAnkara, Treaty of Lausanne, Latin alphabet, secularism, secular state
- tyrannytyrant, despot, tyranny, dictator, autocracy
single-party rulemulti-party system
Governance with several competing factions
two-party system · parliamentary democracy · coalition government · free elections · proportional representation
single-party ruleseparation of powers
Constitutional distribution of authority
power-sharing · checks and balances · divided government · federalism · constitutional democracy
single-party rulepopular sovereignty
Populace holds ultimate authority
self-governance · direct democracy · liberal democracy · representative democracy · democratic participation