unipartyism

English

Etymology

From uni- +‎ party +‎ -ism.

Noun

unipartyism

1. A political system that has only one political party.

   Synonyms: monopartyism, one-party system

   Coordinate terms: multipartyism, pluripartyism

   • 1967, Claude Ake, A Theory of Political Integration, page 82:

     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.

   • 2006, Ibrahim John Werrema, Tanzanians to the Promised Land: After Forty Years, page 34:

     This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place.

   • 2013, Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics, page 52:

     First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition.

   • 2021, James S. Coleman, Carl G. Rosberg, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, page 668:

     Like most political ideologies, it serves primarily to rationalize and legitimate a particular political state of affairs, which in this instance is postcolonial unipartyism.

Related terms

• uniparty

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: yksipuoluejärjestelmä (fi)
• French: monopartisme (fr) m, unipartisme m
• German: Einparteiensystem n