Examples Of Dominant Party Systems

Dominant party systems are political systems that lie on the boundary between democratic and authoritarian. Dominant party systems are not authoritarian systems of government which prevent alternate political power, yet they do not exhibit the political freedoms of a true democracy. Within the system of a dominant party, there exists a government where power is concentrated within the reach of one party, although others exist and are part of elections. Opposition parties are not illegal, but are not expected to win elections, and the party in power always controls governance. It can be similar to a multi party system, although the lack of distribution of power amongst parties is the fundamental difference. Within Latin American politics, the best example of a dominant party system was the one within Mexico that lasted more than seven decades. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) dominated Mexican politics with an anticlerical ideology that believed in the liberalistic ideas of nationalization and land redistribution. This party, through clientelism and corporatism, ended up dominating the legislature and winning election after election. The most valuable role held by members of the PRI was that of the Mexican
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