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Title:Democracy in a one-party state: the Tanzania experience
Author:Cliffe, L.ISNI
Year:1968
Periodical:The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth
Volume:49
Issue:4
Pages:206-214
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:one-party systems
parliamentary systems
Abstract:Tanzania has explicitly questioned the relevance of a parliamentary system to the conditions of an emerging country and one with a dominant national movement. As a result the country has adopted a system which makes it the only constitutional single-party state in the Commonwealth. The first proposal to make Tanzania into a single-party state was made in 1965 by Nyerere, when the country was a de facto one-party state. The new constitution introduced in June 1965 that made it formally a single-party state, was made a reality with the general elections in that year for Parliament and local authorities. These elections are discussed in detail by the author After this he analyses the effect of the new competitive electoral system on the working of Parliament and its influence in the general political process. He ends with making an assessment of the degree of participation in parliament available through party organs of TANU before and after the Arusha Declaration of February 1967.
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