party state

English

Alternative forms

• party-state

Etymology

Possibly calque of Chinese 黨國 / 党国 (dǎngguó).

Noun

party state (plural party states)

1. A state in which power is held by a single political party.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 188:

     It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies.

   • 2012 January 21, “Theme and variations”, in The Economist:

     The party state encourages companies to band together into industry clusters by giving them preferential access to contracts and stockmarket listings.

   • 2021 January 19, Michael Pompeo, “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang”, in US State Department‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 April 2021:

     I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.