Indeed, under the LDP led one party dominant system, this extra constitutional mechanism became an integral part of Japan s government polity.

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.

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.

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.

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

By contrast, in China s one party state, they find it is easier to do business with officials who can make quick decisions and implement them almost instantly.

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

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

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.

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

The Erdoğan government s recent brutal crackdown on popular protests against planned construction in Istanbul s Taksim Gezi Park made Turkey look like a one party dictatorship.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The birth of the DPJ government can yet be a turning point.

Like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in their first few decades of modern growth, China has been ruled by a single party.

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

The monthly support payment for one child shall not be less than half of the minimum monthly wage established by the Government of the Republic.

Unlike Japan, for example, with its de facto one party government for most of the period since 1945, the lifespan of Turkish governments averaged around 14 months between 1960 and 2000.

In the recent election campaign, the LDP continued to criticize the previous DPJ government s immaturity, but avoided attacks on other parties.

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

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.

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

But, after a short lived non LDP government, successive coalition governments until 2009 had the LDP at their core.

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

While Mussolini formally declared fascism to be anti democratic, Putin does not openly reject democracy, or explicitly advocate a one party state.

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

A coalition government, in which the Communist Party had a minority of ministerial positions, was formed in December 1989.

However, the story did not wash with the citizens who simply viewed it as an attempt by the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government to clamp down on the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND).

But those who believe that the CCP can defy both the internal degenerative dynamics of autocracy and the historical record of failed one party regimes might benefit from reading Leon Trotsky, who knew something about revolutions.

If there were no alternative ideas to one party authoritarianism, military rule, or nationwide chaos, the future of China would be very bleak indeed.

To maintain single party legitimacy and thus the ability to govern those narrower interests must be overridden in favor of the general interest.

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.

The DPJ government will collide head on with the mandarins, partly because the party will find it hard to recruit sufficiently qualified policymakers.

What is needed most now is for the DPJ government to restore comprehensive economic management.