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A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system.[1] All other parties are either outlawed or only enjoy 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 power.
Although it is predated by the 1714 to 1783 "age of the Whig oligarchy" in Great Britain,[2] the rule of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) over the Ottoman Empire following the 1913 coup d'état is often considered the first one-party state.[3]
Concept
One-party states justify 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, being its most politically aware members, and therefore the party's right to rule cannot be legitimately questioned. The Soviet government argued that the existence of multiple political parties would perpetuate class struggle, so only a single party could lead a classless proletariat; it therefore made the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the only authorised political party.
Conversely, Russian historian Vadim Rogovin attributed the establishment of the one-party system to the conditions which were “imposed on Bolshevism by hostile political forces”. Rogovin highlighted the fact that the Bolsheviks made strenuous efforts to preserve the Soviet parties such as the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and other left parties within the bounds of Soviet legality and their participation in the Soviets on the condition of abandoning armed struggle against the Bolsheviks.[4]
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 allied 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 National Front in former East Germany and the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea in North Korea. Other states outlaw all other parties yet allow non-party members to run for legislative seats as independents, as was the case with Taiwan's Tangwai movement in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the elections in the former Soviet Union. Still others have only a single legal party, membership of which is a prerequisite for holding public office, such as in Turkmenistan under the rule of Saparmurat Niyazov or Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko.
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 one of the following:
- A party which supports the ideology of Marxism–Leninism and vanguardism (sometimes described as "communist states", such as the Soviet Union)
- A party which supports a nationalist or fascist ideology (such as the Kingdom of Italy under the National Fascist Party or Germany under the Nazi Party)
- A party 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.
With such a small winning coalition, leaders in one-party states usually lack the incentive to care about the well-being of citizens.[5] Rather, they give out private goods to fellow elites to ensure continued support. One-party, compared to dominant-party dictatorships, structure themselves unlike democracies. They also turn into democracies at a lower rate than dominant-party dictatorships.[6] While one-party states prohibit opposition parties, some allow for elections at the smallest local level. One-party states lack any legitimate competition. Therefore, they place elites and sympathetic candidates in key administrative races.[7] For example, the Chinese Communist Party exercises political control by infiltrating village administrations.[8] They view these positions as crucial for gathering information on the population and maintaining a presence in the far reaches of their borders.[9] One-party states recognize the trade-off between election victory and gathering valuable data.[10] To account for this, the regimes have been observed placing local nobility in easy-to-win races.[11] One-party states have also been observed using elections to ensure that only the most popular elites get chosen to office.[12] They also gather data from elections to indicate if a local official is performing poorly in the eyes of the residents.[12] This gives locals the opportunity to monitor local officials and communicate satisfaction with the local government.[12] Throughout the country, members of the one party hold key political positions.[6] In doing so, the party avoids committing outright fraud and rather sustains their power at the local level with strategic appointment of elites.[9] It is also worth noting that it is difficult to gather clear data on these regimes, given their private nature.[7]
One-party states are usually considered to be authoritarian,[13] to the extent that they are occasionally 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.
Current one-party states
As of the following countries are legally constituted as one-party states:
Country | Head of party | Leader title | Party | Ideology | Date of establishment | Duration | Notes |
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China [14] | Xi Jinping | General Secretary | Socialism with Chinese characteristics | 1 October 1949 | 74 years, 285 days | ||
Cuba[15] | Miguel Díaz-Canel | First Secretary | Communist Party of Cuba | Marxism–Leninism, Castroism, Guevarism, Left-wing nationalism | 16 April 1961 | 63 years, 87 days | |
Eritrea[16] | Isaias Afwerki | Chairperson | People's Front for Democracy and Justice | Eritrean nationalism, Statism | 24 May 1993 | 31 years, 49 days | |
Laos[17] | Thongloun Sisoulith | General Secretary | Lao People's Revolutionary Party | Kaysone Phomvihane Thought | 2 December 1975 | 48 years, 223 days | |
North Korea[18] | Kim Jong-un | General Secretary | Workers' Party of Korea | Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism | 9 September 1948 | 75 years, 307 days | Leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Brahim Ghali | Secretary General | Polisario Front | Sahrawi nationalism, Social democracy | 27 February 1976 | 48 years, 136 days | Non-member state of the United Nations, headquartered in Algeria |
Vietnam[19] | Nguyễn Phú Trọng | General Secretary | Communist Party of Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh Thought | 2 July 1976 | 48 years, 10 days |
De facto one-party states
A de facto one-party system is one that, while not officially linking a single political party to governmental power, utilizes some means of political manipulation to ensure only one party stays in power.[20] Many different countries have been claimed to be de facto one-party states, with differing levels of agreement between scholars, although most agree that the African continent is marked by this political system.[21][22] Below are just a few examples of governments that have been claimed to have single party rule due to political manipulation.
Country | Party | Date of
establishment |
Information |
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Angola | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola | 11 November 1975 | The MPLA has ruled Angola since its declaration of independence from Portugal, starting as a de jure one-party state, then initiating a multiparty system in 1991. |
Cambodia | Cambodian People's Party | 7 January 1979 | The CPP has ruled since victory in Cambodian–Vietnamese War |
Republic of the Congo | Congolese Party of Labour | 31 December 1968 | The People's Republic of the Congo was a one-party state, until the establishment of a multiparty system in 1990 and the subsequent loss of the PCT, leading to a civil war in 1997, from which point the PCT has been the sole ruling party since. |
Equatorial Guinea | Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea | 11 October 1987 | Despite not having any constitutional relation between the government and the PDGE, there is a link between the 1982 constitution and Theodoro Obiang, leader of the PDGE, leading Equatorial Guinea since 1979, and having won every election by at least 92% approval, with all "opposition" parties adamantly supporting Obiang, and never holding more than 32% of seats in any house. |
Singapore | People's Action Party | 30 May 1959 | The PAP is currently the longest ruling party in the world. While it does not have much electoral controversy, the PAP is essentially linked to governance in Singapore. |
Japan | Liberal Democratic Party | 15 November 1955 | After the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, the estranged right wing parties began gaining power, and with incentives from the CIA,[23] they formed the LDP, counteracting the formation of the JSP, establishing the 1955 System (also known as the One and a Half Party System), in which the LDP has ruled in all but 4 years. |
Mozambique | Liberation Front of Mozambique | 25 June 1975 | The FRELIMO has ruled Mozambique since its declaration of independence from Portugal, starting as a de jure one-party state, then initiating a multiparty system in 1994. |
Paraguay | Colorado Party (Paraguay) | 11 September 1887 | Since 1947, the Colorado party has been dominant in Paraguayan politics, ruling as the only legal party between 1947 and 1962, and has controlled the presidency since 1948 notwithstanding a brief interruption between 2008 and 2013. With almost 2 million members, it is the largest political party in the country. Despite the party’s grip on power, the government still sustains the defining characteristics of a procedural democracy [24] |
Rwanda | Rwandan Patriotic Front | In power since 1994 |
Former one-party states
Country | Party | Ideology | Date of establishment | Date of dissolution | Duration | Continent |
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Republic of Afghanistan | National Revolutionary Party | Pashtun nationalism, Pashtunization, Republicanism, Secularism | 1977[25][26] | 1978 | 1 year, 73 days | Asia |
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan-Khalq | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Stalinism, Pashtun nationalism, Anti-imperialism | 1978 | 1979 | 1 year, 238 days | Asia |
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan/Republic of Afghanistan | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan-Parcham (National Fatherland Front) | Communism (until 1990), Marxism–Leninism (until 1990), Afghan nationalism, Anti-imperialism | 1979 | 1992 | 12 years, 217 days | Asia |
Albanian Kingdom | Albanian Fascist Party | Albanian nationalism, Greater Albania, Fascism, Italophilia, Serbophobia, Hellenophobia | 1939 | 1943 | 4 years, 55 days | Europe |
Albanian Kingdom | Guard of Greater Albania | Albanian nationalism, Fascism | 1943 | 1943 | 43 days | Europe |
Albanian Kingdom | National Front | Albanian nationalism, Greater Albania, Anti-communism, Republicanism, Big tent, Agrarian socialism | 1943 | 1943 | 76 days | Europe |
Democratic Government of Albania | Party of Labour of Albania (National Liberation Movement) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Hoxhaism, Anti-revisionism | 1944 | 1945 | 289 days | Europe |
Democratic Government of Albania | Party of Labour of Albania (Democratic Front) | 1945 | 1946 | 159 days | Europe | |
Albania | 1946 | 1990 | 44 years, 334 days | Europe | ||
Algeria | National Liberation Front | Arab socialism, Algerian nationalism, Pan-Arabism, Anti-imperialism | 1962 | 1989 | 26 years, 235 days | Africa |
People's Republic of Angola | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola | Communism, Left-wing nationalism, Marxism–Leninism | 1975 | 1991 | 15 years, 200 days | Africa |
Armenia | Communist Party of Armenia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1920 | 1922 | 2 years, 28 days | Asia |
Transcaucasia | Communist Party of Armenia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1922 | 1922 | 293 days | Asia |
Federal State of Austria | Fatherland Front | Clerical fascism | 1934 | 1938 | 3 years, 316 days | Europe |
Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Communist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1920 | 1922 | 2 years, 244 days | Asia |
Transcaucasia | Azerbaijan Communist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1922 | 1922 | 293 days | Asia |
Bangladesh | Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League | Mujibism, Bengali nationalism, Socialism | 1975 | 1975 | 203 days | Asia |
Dahomey | Dahomeyan Democratic Party | African nationalism | 1963 | 1965 | 1 year, 354 days | Africa |
Benin | People's Revolutionary Party of Benin | Communism, Marxism–Leninism (nominally) | 1975 | 1990 | 14 years, 91 days | Africa |
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | National Partnership | Collaborationism, Nazism | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years, 33 days | Europe |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian Communist Party (Fatherland Front) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1946 | 1990 | 43 years, 122 days | Europe |
State of Burma | Dobama Sinyetha Asi Ayon[27] | 1943 | 1944 | 1 year, 0 days | Asia | |
State of Burma | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year, 0 days | Asia | ||
Burma | Burma Socialist Programme Party | Burmese Way to Socialism | 1962 | 1988 | 26 years, 200 days | Asia |
Republic of Burundi | Union for National Progress | Burundian nationalism, Tutsi interests | 1974 | 1992 | 17 years, 246 days | Africa |
Byelorussia | Communist Party of Byelorussia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1920 | 1922 | 2 years, 152 days | Europe |
Cambodia (Sangkum era) | Sangkum | Khmer nationalism, National conservatism, Royalism, Statism, Buddhist socialism, Economic nationalism | 1955 | 1970 | 14 years, 361 days | Asia |
Kampuchea | Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party | Communism, Socialism, Marxism–Leninism, Revisionism, Left-wing nationalism | 1979 | 1989 | 10 years, 114 days | Asia |
Republic of Cameroon | Cameroonian National Union | Big tent | 1966[28] | 1985 | 18 years, 204 days | Africa |
Cameroon | Cameroon People's Democratic Movement | Big tent, Nationalism, Francophilia | 1975 | 1990 | 15 years, 0 days | Africa |
Cape Verde | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1975 | 1981 | 5 years, 203 days | Africa |
Cape Verde | African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1981 | 1990 | 9 years, 251 days | Africa |
Carpatho-Ukraine | Ukrainian National Union[29] | Nationalism[30] | 1939[31] | 1939 | 60 days | Europe |
Central African Republic | Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa | African nationalism, Anti-colonialism, Progressivism, Anti-imperialism | 1962 | 1980 | 18 years, 0 days | Africa |
Central African Republic | Central African Democratic Union | African nationalism, Republicanism | 1980 | 1981 | 1 year, 185 days | Africa |
Central African Republic | Central African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, Democratic socialism, Social democracy, Republicanism | 1987 | 1991[32] | 4 years, 75 days | Africa |
Chad | Chadian Progressive Party | African nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-imperialism, African socialism, Federalism | 1962 | 1973 | 10 years, 355 days | Africa |
Chad | National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution | African nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-imperialism, African socialism, Federalism | 1973 | 1975 | 2 years, 7 days | Africa |
Chad | National Union for Independence and Revolution | Nationalism | 1984 | 1990 | 6 years, 162 days | Africa |
Guangzhou | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1927 | 1927 | Asia | |
Hunan | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1927 | 1927 | Asia | |
Jinggang | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1927 | 1928 | 1 year, 0 days | Asia |
Southwest Jiangxi | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1930 | 1931 | 1 year, 0 days | Asia |
Chinese Soviet Republic | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1931 | 1937 | 5 years, 319 days | Asia |
Xinjiang | People's Anti-Imperialist Association | Six Great Policies | 1935 | 1942 | 6 years, 243 days | Asia |
Republic of China[note 1]/Taiwan | Kuomintang | Tridemism | Template:DTS | Template:DTS | 62 years, 14 days | Asia |
Yan'an | Chinese Communist Party | Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese communism | 1937 | 1949 | 12 years, 0 days | Asia |
Comoros | Comorian Union for Progress | Nationalism | 1982 | 1990 | 8 years, 0 days | Africa |
People's Republic of the Congo | Congolese Party of Labour | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1969 | 1992 | 23 years, 47 days | Africa |
Tinoquista Costa Rica | Peliquista Party | Nationalism, Personalism, Authoritarianism | 1917 | 1919 | 2 years, 197 days | North America |
Template:Country data Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Czechoslovakia | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (National Front) | Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism, Husakism | 1948 | 1989 | 41 years, 278 days | Europe |
Dahomey | Dahomeyan Unity Party | African nationalism, Republicanism | 1961 | 1963 | 2 years, 216 days | Africa |
Danzig | Nazi Party | Nazism | 1937[33][34] | 1939 | 1 year, 315 days | Europe |
Djibouti | People's Rally for Progress | Issa interests | 1981 | 1992 | 10 years, 339 days | Africa |
Dominican Republic | Dominican Party | Trujillism, National conservatism, Right-wing populism, Antihaitianismo | 1931 | 1961 | 30 years, 148 days | North America |
East Germany | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Democratic Bloc) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1949 | 1950 | 174 days | Europe |
East Germany | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (National Front of the German Democratic Republic) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1950 | 1989 | 39 years, 246 days | Europe |
Egypt | Liberation Rally | Egyptian nationalism, Pan-Arabism, Socialism | 1953 | 1957 | 4 years, 0 days | Africa |
Egypt | National Union | Nasserism, Pan-Arabism, Socialism | 1957 | 1962 | 5 years, 0 days | Africa |
Egypt | Arab Socialist Union | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Pan-Arabism, Nasserism | 1961 | 1976 | 15 years, 0 days | Africa |
Egypt | National Democractic Party | Egyptian nationalism, Big-Tent, Neo-liberalism | 1976 | 2011 | 35 years, 0 days | Africa |
El Salvador | National Pro Patria Party | Fascism, Anti-communism, Conservatism, Agrarian oligarchy | 1933 | 1944 | 11 years, 0 days | Central America |
Equatorial Guinea | United National Workers' Party | African nationalism, Personalism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-racism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-intellectualism, Totalitarianism | 1970 | 1979 | 9 years, 49 days | Africa |
Equatorial Guinea | Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea | African nationalism, Militarism | 1987 | 1991 | 4 years, 36 days | Africa |
Eritrea | Eritrean People's Liberation Front | Left-wing nationalism | 1991 (Provisional government)
1993 (Recognized state) |
1994 | 3 years, 0 days | Africa |
Estonia | Patriotic League (National Front for the Implementation of the Constitution) | Estonian nationalism, Personalism | 1935 | 1940 | 5 years, 134 days | Europe |
Estonia | Communist Party of Estonia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1940 | 1940 | 19 days | Europe |
Ethiopia | Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1984 | 1987 | 2 years, 163 days | Africa |
Ethiopia | Workers' Party of Ethiopia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1987 | 1991 | 4 years, 65 days | Africa |
Gabon | Gabonese Democratic Party | Conservatism | 1968 | 1990 | 22 years, 71 days | Africa |
Georgia | Communist Party of Georgia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1921 | 1922 | 1 year, 308 days | Asia |
Transcaucasia | Communist Party of Georgia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1922 | 1922 | 293 days | Asia |
Nazi Germany | National Socialist German Workers' Party | Nazism | 1933 | 1945 | 11 years, 313 days | Europe |
Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories | National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands | Collaborationism, Dutch irredentism, Dutch nationalism and Nazism | 1941 | 1945 | 3 years, 143 days | Europe |
Ghana | Convention People's Party | Nkrumaism, African socialism, African nationalism, Pan-Africanism | 1964 | 1966 | 2 years, 24 days | Africa |
Grenada | New Jewel Movement | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1979 | 1983 | 4 years, 226 days | North America |
Guatemala | Progressive Liberal Party | Ubicoism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Anti-communism | 1931 | 1944 | Central America | |
Guinea | Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, African socialism, Pan-Africanism | 1960 | 1984 | Africa | |
Guinea-Bissau | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1974 | 1991 | Africa | |
Haiti | National Unity Party | Black nationalism, Haitian nationalism, Right-wing populism, Anti-communism, Anti-Americanism | 1957 | 1985 | 28 years, 38 days | North America |
Hawaii | Reform Party | Americanisation, Annexationism | 1894 | 1898 | 4 years, 39 days | North America |
Government of National Unity | Arrow Cross Party | Hungarism, Fascism, Collaborationism, Agrarianism | 1944 | 1945 | 203 days | Europe |
Template:FlagdTemplate:FlagdTemplate:Flagd Hungary | Hungarian Working People's Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Stalinism | 1949 | 1956 | 7 years, 72 days | Europe |
Template:FlagdTemplate:Flagd Hungary | Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Kádárism | 1956 | 1989 | 32 years, 350 days | Europe |
Indonesia | Indonesian National Party | Nationalism, Marhaenism | 1945 | 1945 | 78 days | Asia |
Imperial State of Iran | Rastakhiz Party | Monarchism, Populism, Secularism, Democratic centralism, Third Position | 1975 | 1978 | 3 years, 244 days | Asia |
Iran | Islamic Republican Party | Velyât-e Faqih, Anti-imperialism, Iranian nationalism, Shi'ite Islamism, Anti-Monarchism, Anti-Americanism, Anti-communism, Anti-Sovietism, Anti-Zionism, Islamic fundamentalism, Homophobia, Anti-Western sentiment | 1981 | 1987 | Asia | |
Iraq | Iraqi Arab Socialist Union | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Pan-Arabism, Nasserism | 1964 | 1968 | Asia | |
Iraq | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (National Progressive Front) | Saddamist Ba'athism | 1968 | 2003 | Asia | |
Kingdom of Italy
|
National Fascist Party
|
Fascism, Corporatism, Ultranationalism, Totalitarianism | 1928[35]
|
1943 | Europe
| |
Italian Social Republic | Republican Fascist Party | Fascism, Corporatism, Ultranationalism, Totalitarianism, Antisemitism, Collaborationism | 1943 | 1945 | Europe | |
Ivory Coast | Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, Conservatism, Populism, Houphouëtism, Pan-Africanism | 1960 | 1990 | Africa | |
Empire of Japan | Imperial Rule Assistance Association | Shōwa statism | 1940 | 1945 | Asia | |
Philippine Executive Commission | Association for Service to the New Philippines | Filipino nationalism, National conservatism, Fascism, Japanophilia, collaborationism | 1942 | 1943 | Asia | |
Kampuchea | Communist Party of Kampuchea | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Agrarianism, Autarky, Khmer nationalism, Ultranationalism | 1975 | 1982 | Asia | |
Kenya | Kenya African National Union | Kenyan nationalism, Conservatism | 1982 | 1991 | Africa | |
Independent State of Croatia | Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement | Croatian irredentism, Croatian ultranationalism, National conservatism, Social conservatism, Clerical fascism, Fascist corporatism, Political Catholicism, Anti-communism | 1941 | 1945 | Europe | |
Latvia | Communist Party of Latvia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1918 | 1920 | Europe | |
Latvia | Communist Party of Latvia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1940 | 1940 | Europe | |
Libya | Arab Socialist Union | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Pan-Arabism, Nasserism, Nationalism | 1971 | 1977 | Africa | |
Lithuania–Byelorussia | Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1919 | 1919 | Europe | |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Nationalist Union | Lithuanian nationalism, National conservatism, Social conservatism, Fascist corporatism, Anti-communism | 1936[36] | 1940 | Europe | |
Lithuania | Communist Party of Lithuania | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1940 | 1940 | Europe | |
Democratic Republic of Madagascar | National Front for the Defense of the Revolution | Left-wing nationalism, Scientific socialism | 1976 | 1989 | Africa | |
Malawi | Malawi Congress Party | Ubuntu, Conservatism, African nationalism, Anti-colonialism | 1964 | 1993 | Africa | |
Mali | Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, Pan-Africanism, African socialism | 1960 | 1968 | Africa | |
Mali | Democratic Union of the Malian People | African socialism, Democratic centralism | 1976 | 1991 | Africa | |
Manchukuo | Concordia Association | Fascism, Monarchism, Manchurian nationalism, Pan-Asianism, Anti-communism, Personalism, collaborationism | 1932[37] | 1945[37] | Asia | |
Mauritania | Mauritanian People's Party | Nationalism, Centralism, Islamic socialism | 1961 | 1978 | Africa | |
Mexico | Institutional Revolutionary Party | Revolutionary nationalism, Big tent | Template:DTS | Template:DTS | 71 years, 120 days | North America |
Mongolia | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1921 | 1990 | Asia | |
Mozambique | FRELIMO | Marxism–Leninism | 1975 | 1990 | Africa | |
Niger | Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, Pan-Africanism | 1960 | 1974 | Africa | |
Niger | National Movement for the Development of Society | Conservatism | 1989 | 1991 | Africa | |
Vietnam (partially) | Workers' Party of North Vietnam (League for the Independence of Vietnam) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought | 1945 | Asia | ||
North Vietnam | Workers' Party of North Vietnam (Vietnamese Fatherland Front) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought | 1955 | 1976 | Asia | |
North Yemen | General People's Congress | Yemeni nationalism, Arab nationalism, Pan-Arabism, Big tent | 1982 | 1988 | Asia | |
National Government | National Rally | Fascism, Nazism, Fascist corporatism, Anti-communism, Collaborationism | 1940 | 1945 | Europe | |
Ottoman Empire | Union and Progress Party[38] | İttihadism | Template:DTS | 1918 | Asia/Europe | |
Paraguay | Colorado Party | Conservatism, national conservatism | 1947 | 1962 | South America | |
Persia | Communist Party of Persia | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1920 | 1921 | Asia | |
Republic of the Philippines | Association for Service to the New Philippines | Filipino nationalism, National conservatism, Fascism, Japanophilia, collaborationism | 1943 | 1945 | Asia | |
Poland | Polish United Workers' Party (Front of National Unity) | Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1947 | 1982 | Europe | |
Poland | Polish United Workers' Party (Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth) | Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1982 | 1989 | Europe | |
Portugal | National Union | Salazarism, corporatism, Integralismo Lusitano | 1930[39] | 1945[39] | Europe | |
Portugal | National Union | Salazarism, corporatism, Integralismo Lusitano | 1948[40] | 1969[note 2] | Europe | |
Portugal | People's National Action (formerly National Union) | Corporatism, Integralismo Lusitano | 1970 | 1974 | Europe | |
Romania | Party of the Nation | Big tent, Romanian nationalism, Monarchism | 1938 | 1940 | Europe | |
National Legionary State | Iron Guard | Legionarism, clerical fascism, Christian nationalism | 1940 | 1941 | Europe | |
Romania | Romanian Communist Party (People's Democratic Front) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1948 | 1968 | Europe | |
Romania | Romanian Communist Party (Front of Socialist Unity) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, National Communism | 1968 | 1980 | Europe | |
Romania | Romanian Communist Party (Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, National Communism | 1980 | 1989 | Europe | |
Rwanda | Parmehutu | Hutu Power | 1965 | 1973 | Africa | |
Rwanda | National Revolutionary Movement for Development | Hutu Power, Ultranationalism, Social conservatism, Anti-communism | 1978 | 1991 | Africa | |
San Marino | Sammarinese Fascist Party | Italian fascism, Corporatism | 1926 | 1943 | Europe | |
San Marino | Republican Fascist Party of San Marino | Italian fascism | 1943 | 1944 | Europe | |
Senegal | Socialist Party of Senegal | African nationalism, African socialism | 1966 | 1974 | Africa | |
Seychelles | Seychelles People's Progressive Front | Communism, Marxism-Leninism | 1977 | 1991 | Africa | |
Sierra Leone | All People's Congress | African nationalism, Democratic socialism | 1978 | 1991 | Africa | |
Slovak Republic | Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity | Clerical fascism, Slovak nationalism | 1939 | 1945 | Europe | |
Somalia | Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party | Islamic socialism, Marxism–Leninism, Pan-Somalism
Scientific socialism, Somali nationalism |
1976 | 1991 | Africa | |
South Yemen | National Liberation Front | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism | 1967 | 1978 | Asia | |
South Yemen | Yemeni Socialist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1978 | 1990 | Asia | |
Yemen | Yemeni Socialist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1994 | 1994 | Asia | |
Estonia | Russian Communist Party (Central Committee of the Estonian Sections) | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1918 | 1919 | 188 days | Europe |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | Russian Communist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1918[41] | 1922 | 4 years, 297 days | Europe/Asia |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1918 | 1918[41] | 48 days | Europe/Asia |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Russian Communist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1922 | 1925[41] | 3 years, 1 day | Europe/Asia |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | All-Union Communist Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism, Stalinism | 1925[41] | 1952[41] | 26 years, 287 days | Europe/Asia |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1952[41] | 1990[42] | 37 years, 361 days | Europe/Asia |
Kingdom of Spain | Patriotic Union | Spanish nationalism, Political Catholicism, Monarchism, Conservatism | 1924 | 1930 | Europe | |
Spanish State | FET y de las JONS | Francoism, Falangism, Spanish nationalism, traditionalism, National Catholicism, anti-liberalism, corporatism | 1939 | 1976[43] | Europe | |
Democratic Republic of the Sudan | Sudanese Socialist Union | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Anti-communism | 1971 | 1985 | Africa | |
Sudan | National Congress Party | Islamism, Arab nationalism, Salafism, Social conservatism | 1989 | 2005 | Africa | |
Syrian Republic | Arab Liberation Movement | Pan-Arabism, Modernization, Pro-Western | 1953 | 1954 | Asia | |
Syria | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (National Progressive Front) | Neo-Ba'athism | 1963 | 2012[44][45] | Asia | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe – Social Democratic Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 1975 | 1990 | Africa | |
Template:Country data Tanganyika (1961–1964) | Tanganyika African National Union | African nationalism, African socialism, Ujamaa | 1961 | 1977 | Africa | |
Tanzania | Chama Cha Mapinduzi | Ujamaa, African socialism | 1977 | 1992 | Africa | |
Togo | Party of Togolese Unity | African nationalism | 1962 | 1963 | Africa | |
Togo | Rally of the Togolese People | African nationalism, Right-wing populism | 1969 | 1991 | Africa | |
Tunisia | Neo Destour | Tunisian nationalism, Bourguibism | 1963 | 1964 | Africa | |
Tunisia | Socialist Destourian Party | Tunisian nationalism, Secularism, Bourguibism | 1964 | 1981 | Africa | |
Turkey (one-party period) | Republican People's Party | Kemalism | 1923 | 1945 | Asia/Europe | |
Turkmenistan | Democratic Party of Turkmenistan | Turkmen nationalism, Secularism, Social conservatism, Catch-all party | 1992 | 2008 | Asia | |
Tuva | Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1921 | 1944 | Asia | |
Uganda | Uganda People's Congress | Social democracy, African nationalism, Pan-Africanism | 1969 | 1971 | Africa | |
Ukraine | Communist Party of Ukraine | Communism, Marxism–Leninism, democratic centralism, state socialism | 1919 | 1922 | Europe | |
Template:Country data United Arab Republic | National Union | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Pan-Arabism | 1958 | 1961 | Africa | |
Template:Country data Upper Volta Upper Volta | Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally | African nationalism, Pan-Africanism | 1960 | 1966 | Africa | |
Yugoslavia | Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy | Royalism, Yugoslav nationalism, Agrarianism, Centralism, Anti-liberalism | 1929 | 1931 | Europe | |
Yugoslavia | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia) | Marxism–Leninism, Titoism, Yugoslavism | 1945 | 1990 | Europe | |
Zaire | Popular Movement of the Revolution | Mobutism, Zairean nationalism, Authenticité | 1970 | 1990 | Africa | |
Zambia | United National Independence Party | African socialism, African nationalism | 1972 | 1990 | Africa | |
Zanzibar | Afro-Shirazi Party | African nationalism, Marxism–Leninism | 1964 | 1977 | Africa |
See also
- Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Dominant-party system
- List of political party songs
- Multi-party system
- Outline of democracy
- Political factionalism
- Political organisation
- Two-party system
Notes
- ↑ The Republic of China controlled the mainland from 1912 to 1949 and the island of Taiwan since 1945, in which the ROC currently administers the Free area. This government served China in the United Nations from 1945 to 1971. See Political status of Taiwan and the One-China policy for various viewpoints.
- ↑ Following the appointment of Marcelo Caetano as Prime Minister in 1968, the opposition was allowed to run to the 1969 Portuguese legislative election, before being banned.
Further reading
- Angiolillo, Fabio (2023). "Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset: A dataset on party membership in autocracies". Journal of Peace Research
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