A system of government where only one political party is permitted.
the transition from a one-party system to pluralistic government went smoothly
Example sentencesExamples
- The ideological orientation of the two regimes led them to create a one-party system of governance.
- An effective two-party system is not far removed from an effective one-party system.
- Jiang is credited with moving China from a centralised dictatorship to a consensual one-party system of competing party factions.
- The formal government changed in 1992 from a socialist, one-party system to a multiparty, free market system.
- Following the 1952 coup Egypt became a one-party system.
- The Iraqi political system is not just a military dictatorship or a one-party system.
- By the end of the 1980 s, the one-party system gave way to the re-birth of democracy in the country.
- I have always fought for the organization of free elections against the rule of the one-party system.
- They hold elections but under one-party systems.
- There's something to be said for a one-party system, too.