Internecine strife elsewhere in Africa was warning enough against a one party Government in a unitary State.

Indeed, under the LDP led one party dominant system, this extra constitutional mechanism became an integral part of Japan s government polity.

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.

If it is corrupt? If you only have a one party system...

When the DPJ came to power in September 2009 it ended half a century of de facto one party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

But one party rule breeds complacency, corruption, and political sclerosis.

23. It was the firm commitment of IFP to a pluralist democracy under a federal Government that had cast it at odds with the outgoing South African Government and ANC, the party that still seemed bent on perpetuating one party rule.

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Japan s one party state, under the conservative LDP, was a product of World War II and the Cold War.

In 1973 Zambia adopted a new Constitution, which introduced a one party system of government.

So, it's kind of Leninist but with less of the Marxist going on.

China, too, most likely wants to retain, at least for a while, the benefits of single party rule, and delay the transition to messier governance influenced by multiple voices.

The Labour Party had a single party majority in the Storting from 1945 to 1961.

If you want the benefits of the former, you cannot allow the latter.

Single party regimes have today become the exception on our continent, while pluralism is becoming the rule.

By contrast, in China s one party state, they find it is easier to do business with officials who can make quick decisions and implement them almost instantly.

The Chinese democracy movement (), abbreviated as Minyun () refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one party rule by the Communist Party.

He was the last prime minister of the single party era in the politics of Turkey.

2.1 The author is a journalist, writer and long time opponent of the one party system in Cameroon.

The economic boom is the only source of legitimacy that the one party state has left.

During his first period as President, he headed the single party regime of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years.

The communist one party system with its socio political order had been replaced by a pluralist society, a functioning democracy and the rule of law.

Most political scientists will tell us that, the one party system is inherently incapable of self correction.

By modernizing the seminaries following a single party model, the revolutionaries gained control over them.

This leaves unification as the last tie to Mao's revolution and justification for one party rule.

A firm rejection of the one party state will also reverberate far beyond Japan s borders.

On the issue of a single party system, the Life President had taken the initiative to schedule a national referendum.

Now, this way, I am afraid it is Democracy not China's One Party system, that is in danger of losing legitimacy.

OSAKA Yesterday s landslide general election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one party dominated system that the catch all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.

The birth of the DPJ government can yet be a turning point.

Only one party rule would guarantee the continuing rise of China and put an end to centuries of national humiliation.

The old Assad feared that open borders and the end of the politics of conflict might erode his one party system.

China may be unique in many ways, but its one party rule is hardly exceptional.

Indeed, it has often been said, by Japanese as well as foreign commentators, that a de facto one party state suits the Japanese.

They say that corruption is a result of One Party System, and therefore, in order to cure it, you have to do away with the entire system.

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling. The LDP s need for three different prime ministers in the space of little more than a year made plain that the party s power nucleus had melted down.

The Erdoğan government s recent brutal crackdown on popular protests against planned construction in Istanbul s Taksim Gezi Park made Turkey look like a one party dictatorship.

Like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in their first few decades of modern growth, China has been ruled by a single party.

After 18 years of one party participatory democracy, Zambia had reverted back to the multiparty system in 1991.

The one party dictatorship that had ruled Malawi for 30 years came to an ignoble end by the will of the people.

As a result, they have little direct appreciation of the worst aspect of one party rule a rapacious, legally unrestrained elite.

In the recent election campaign, the LDP continued to criticize the previous DPJ government s immaturity, but avoided attacks on other parties.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule.

Other economies, such as China, are seeking ways to establish the rule of law by strengthening the institutional framework within the framework of one party rule.

Instead of democratic transition, China has witnessed a consolidation of authoritarian rule the strengthening of a one party regime through organizational learning and adaptation.