unipartyism en · NOUN
Etymology
From uni- + party + -ism.
Meanings
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A political system that has only one political party.
First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition.
2013, Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics, page 52:Like most political ideologies, it serves primarily to rationalize and legitimate a particular political state of affairs, which in this instance is postcolonial unipartyism.
2021, James S. Coleman, Carl G. Rosberg, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, page 668:This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place.
2006, Ibrahim John Werrema, Tanzanians to the Promised Land: After Forty Years, page 34:Unipartyism, it has been argued, is at once stabilizing and integrative; it reflects the legacy of government by consensus characteristic of most traditional political systems and prevents the dissipation of energy in desultory political strife.
1967, Claude Ake, A Theory of Political Integration, page 82:
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Synonyms
monopartyism · one-party system
Translations (4)
fr unipartisme (Translations) · fr monopartisme (Translations) · fi yksipuoluejärjestelmä (Translations) · de Einparteiensystem (Translations)