single-party state
Monopolized political system
A single-party state is a country where only one political party holds power, either by law or through suppression of opposition.
Other parties may be banned outright or exist in name only without genuine electoral competition.
China and Cuba are single-party states.
The term often carries connotations of authoritarianism, though some such governments claim popular legitimacy.
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
- supreme leaderHighest-ranking authoritarian figure
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
iron curtain · Marxism-Leninism · indoctrination · thought control · totalitarianism · Maoism · propaganda · North Korea · nationalism · oligarchy · human rights violations · centralized control · communism · autocracy · military junta · socialism · political repression · despotism
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- Totalitarianismtotalitarianism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, authoritarian rule, secret police
- tyrannytyrant, despot, tyranny, dictator, autocracy
- Communist governancePolitburo, Central Committee, general secretary, standing committee, socialist republic
- Communist StatesUSSR, Soviet Union, East Germany, GDR, DDR
- ZaireMobutu, Zaire, Kinshasa, national currency
single-party statemulti-party democracy
Governance with competing political groups
two-party system · parliamentary democracy · coalition government · democratic republic
single-party stateliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
free society · open society · democracy · representative democracy · constitutional democracy
single-party statedecentralized government
Authority distributed across regions
constitutional republic · federal republic · federalism · separation of powers · checks and balances
single, singly, singleton, singles, singled, singling, party, parties, partied