Party state
A party state is a state whose state power is essentially in the hands of social parties and interest groups. It is a complete party state if the individual “state powers” ( legislative , executive and judicial ) are exclusively in the hands of formed social forces such as the political parties . This type of social system is also called party rule.
A State Party is a party democracy , if the parties democratic elections set and in the formation of public opinion involved - as such. B. is the case in Germany on the basis of Article 21 of the Basic Law and in the Political Parties Act . Whether and to what extent a party democracy also has party state characteristics is a question of the individual case , and whether this is disadvantageous is a question of evaluation.
For example, tendencies towards party statehood were criticized in the first half of the 20th century . a. by Carl Schmitt , Othmar Spann and Oswald Spengler , but justified in the second half by Gerhard Leibholz's party state doctrine .
Not a party state, but its opposite would be an absolute state with side effects such as the dominance of state bureaucracy as in the official state or bureaucratic state . Even a strictly democratic basis organized Soviet Republic , a demarchy or a dictatorship can do without parties.
See also
Web links
- Peter Lösche: Party state in crisis , lecture and discussion at an event of the history discussion group of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn on August 19, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Apel: The Deformed Democracy: Party Rule in Germany , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1991, ISBN 978-3-421-06598-8 .
