Unipartyism

Unipartyism, it has been argued, is at once stabilizing and integrative; it reflects the legacy of government by consensus characteristic of most traditional political systems and prevents the dissipation of energy in desultory political strife.

This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place.

First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition.

Like most political ideologies, it serves primarily to rationalize and legitimate a particular political state of affairs, which in this instance is postcolonial unipartyism.