What is One-party dominant state?
The '''one-party dominant state''' is a system of [[majority rule]] where one [[political party]] has successively won [[election]] victories by a very large [[majority]] and is, therefore, the dominant ruling party, which does not have to form [[coalition]]s ([[alliance]]s) with other smaller political parties as a result. The one-party dominant state differs from a [[one-party state]], because [[Parliamentary opposition|opposition]] parties against the dominant ruling party are allowed, but have no real chance of gaining power. Many one-party dominant states are [[dictatorship]]s where only one party can by [[law]] be in control, but some one-party dominant states are real [[democracy|democracies]], where there are no limits by law against other parties. A case of this was [[Mexico]], where [[President]]ial candidates (the person running for this [[government]]al office) of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] were popularly elected for more than 70 years. In Sweden and Japan, the ruling party lost at least one election but soon won another and returned to power. Another example is [[South Africa]], where the [[African National Congress]] has been the ruling party of post-[[apartheid]] South Africa since the [[democratization]] of the country with the election of [[Nelson Mandela]] in the 1994, winning every election since then. During the apartheid era, the [[National Party of South Africa]] ruled from 1948 to 1994 and imposed apartheid. In one-party dominant states that are dictatorships, methods are used to suppress other parties, without actually banning them. In some cases state power is used directly and indirectly to prevent smaller parties getting more votes. This can include [[electoral fraud]], [[gerrymandering]] or [[court]] decisions (which are controlled by the government). In many cases, opposition leaders and other figures are prevented from using the [[mass media]] (which are controlled by the government) at election time, and also they often are threatened, harassed, jailed and eve