One Party Domination in Singapore and Mexico

Political scientists often describe Mexico as a one-party authoritarian state. Power is centralized in the hands of a virtually omnipotent president, who is always the candidate of the dominant or ruling party, which in Mexico is the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI). Singapore is a one-party state that declares that it is democratic although when analyzed by political scientists is considered socialist. These parties have many similarities and many differences and this …

…The little room available for dialogue between the dominant party and their oppositions gives further proof that the political systems are non-democratic. The PRI in Mexico and the PAP in Singapore have kept its domination through corporatism and through other means of political reciprocity. Power that is centralized in the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Singapore have kept the political system running as to maintain the one-party dominance in their respective countries.