Unipartidismo

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Ang unipartidismo ay sistema ng pamamahala kung saan isang partidong pampolitika ang tanging kumokontrol sa naghaharing sistema.{{Cite book |last1=Clark |first1=William Roberts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2KFvJwi8_jwC&pg=PA611 |title=Principles of Comparative Politics |last2=Golder |first2=Matt |last3=Golder |first3=Sona Nadenichek |date=23 Marso 2012 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=9781608716791 |pages=611 |language=en} Ang lahat ng iba pang partido ay maaaring ipinagbabawal o tinatangkilik lamang ang limitado at kontroladong paglahok sa halalan. Minsan ang terminong "de facto one-party state" ay ginagamit upang ilarawan ang isang dominant-party system na, hindi katulad ng one-party state, ay nagpapahintulot (kahit nominally) ang demokratikong multiparty na halalan, ngunit ang umiiral na ang mga gawi o balanse ng kapangyarihang pampulitika ay epektibong pumipigil sa oposisyon na manalo ng kapangyarihan.

Bagaman ito ay nauna sa 1714 hanggang 1783 "panahon ng Whig oligarchy" sa Great Britain,Holmes, Geoffrey ; at Szechi, D. (2014). Ang Edad ng Oligarkiya: Pre-Industrial Britain 1722–1783. Routledge. p. xi. . . ang panuntunan ng Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) sa Imperyong Otomano kasunod ng kudeta noong 1913 ay madalas na itinuturing na unang one-party state.

Current one-party states
As of  the following countries are legally constituted as one-party states:
CountryHead of partyLeader titlePartyIdeologyDate of establishmentDurationNotes China100px|center Xi JinpingGeneral SecretarySocialism with Chinese characteristics1 October 1949 Cuba100px|center Miguel Díaz-CanelFirst Secretary Communist Party of CubaMarxism–Leninism, Castroism, Guevarism, Left-wing nationalism16 April 1961 Eritrea100px|center Isaias AfwerkiChairperson People's Front for Democracy and JusticeEritrean nationalism, Statism24 May 1993 Laos100px|center Thongloun SisoulithGeneral Secretary Lao People's Revolutionary PartyKaysone Phomvihane Thought2 December 1975 North Korea100px|center Kim Jong-unGeneral Secretary Workers' Party of KoreaKimilsungism–Kimjongilism9 September 1948Leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic100px|center Brahim GhaliSecretary General Polisario FrontSahrawi nationalism, Social democracy27 February 1976Non-member state of the United Nations, headquartered in Algeria Vietnam100px|center Nguyễn Phú TrọngGeneral Secretary Communist Party of VietnamHo Chi Minh Thought2 July 1976