When the DPJ came to power in September 2009 it ended half a century of de facto one party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

But one party rule breeds complacency, corruption, and political sclerosis.

If you want the benefits of the former, you cannot allow the latter.

Other economies, such as China, are seeking ways to establish the rule of law by strengthening the institutional framework within the framework of one party rule.

The Chinese democracy movement (), abbreviated as Minyun () refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one party rule by the Communist Party.

Only one party rule would guarantee the continuing rise of China and put an end to centuries of national humiliation.

China may be unique in many ways, but its one party rule is hardly exceptional.

As a result, they have little direct appreciation of the worst aspect of one party rule a rapacious, legally unrestrained elite.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule.

Instead of democratic transition, China has witnessed a consolidation of authoritarian rule the strengthening of a one party regime through organizational learning and adaptation.

India, with which Pakistan shares a similar background, went through 40 years of dysfunctional democracy with a one party system.

But Zhao was also the only CCP leader to propose a political reform package to tackle China s system of one party rule.

But Hu s administration invariably slams on the brakes whenever their put people first initiatives begin to threaten one party rule.

From its first years, government in the Soviet Union was based on the one party rule of the Communists, as the Bolsheviks called themselves, beginning in March 1918.

One party systems, one man charismatic dictatorships, or a mixture of the two, as in Tito s Yugoslavia, are a guarantee of sclerotic minds and inert governments.

China, too, most likely wants to retain, at least for a while, the benefits of single party rule, and delay the transition to messier governance influenced by multiple voices.

If multi party democracy leads to violent and uncompromising electoral blocs, then most reflective people will prefer one party rule that ensures social stability.

One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one party rule and contributing to the pressure for change.

The Chinese government, under the Communist Party, has every reason to feel confident. So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one party rule?

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.

Japan s one party state, under the conservative LDP, was a product of World War II and the Cold War.

The Communist Party of China used to rule a destitute power.

After a long period of one party rule, a 1991 coup led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi party state.

So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one party rule?

The Labour Party had a single party majority in the Storting from 1945 to 1961.

Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

He was the last prime minister of the single party era in the politics of Turkey.

The economic boom is the only source of legitimacy that the one party state has left.

During his first period as President, he headed the single party regime of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years.

The Chinese government, under the Communist Party, has every reason to feel confident.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan for most of the post war decades, lost parliamentary elections to the Democratic Party of Japan.

They also see that party and state policy guidance is followed and that non party members do not create autonomous organizations that could challenge party rule.

This underscores the extent to which authorities have to carry out internal repression to perpetuate one party rule and maintain control over the restive ethnic minority homelands that make up more than 60 of China s landmass.

The other key lesson from Singapore is that single party rule has retained popular legitimacy by delivering inclusive growth and equality of opportunity in a multi ethnic society, and by eliminating corruption of all kinds, including cronyism and excessive influence for vested interests.

Through each stage more power would have been transferred to the aristocracy as a whole, and away from a single individual.

By modernizing the seminaries following a single party model, the revolutionaries gained control over them.

This leaves unification as the last tie to Mao's revolution and justification for one party rule.

A firm rejection of the one party state will also reverberate far beyond Japan s borders.

OSAKA Yesterday s landslide general election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one party dominated system that the catch all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.

Moreover, the transition to a pluralist system that channels, rather than suppresses, political conflict would indeed be risky, though the risk will grow the longer one party rule (and the endemic corruption that accompanies it) persists.

By reunifying the Party leadership and re establishing solidarity between the Party and the urban population, the crisis consolidated CCP rule, and accelerated China s momentum down its current path of rapid economic growth.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule. But it is precisely the absence of effective checks on the exercise of power that encourages and sustains rampant corruption in the first place.

The old Assad feared that open borders and the end of the politics of conflict might erode his one party system.

Indeed, it has often been said, by Japanese as well as foreign commentators, that a de facto one party state suits the Japanese.

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling. The LDP s need for three different prime ministers in the space of little more than a year made plain that the party s power nucleus had melted down.