party state
English
Alternative forms
- party-state
Noun
party state (plural party states)
- A state in which power is held by a single political party.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 188:
- It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies.
- 2012, ‘Theme and variations’, The Economist, 21 Jan 2012:
- The party state encourages companies to band together into industry clusters by giving them preferential access to contracts and stockmarket listings.
- 2021 January 19, Michael Pompeo, “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang”, in US State Department, archived from the original on 11 April 2021, retrieved 11 April 2021:
- I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 188: