Advantages and Disadvantages of a One-Party System in China & the comparison with Singapore.

Advantages and Disadvantages of the one-party system in China:

Advantages:

-efficient as a ruling party

-can impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward

-allows the leaders to steer the country in one direction

Disadvantages: 

-Not all voices are heard or represented

-Freedom can be restricted or limited

-undemocratic

-does not allow for any permanent decisions to be made

-cannot produce a political system

-all forms of political opposition are banned by law

Currently, Singapore is a multi-party system.

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party (PAP) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister (Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire). The PAP has been in government and won every General Election since then. Singapore left the Commonwealth in 1963 to join the Federation of Malaysia, but was expelled from the Federation in 1965 after Lee Kuan Yew disagreed with the federal government in Kuala Lumpur. Foreign political analysts and several opposition parties including the Workers' Party of Singapore and the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) have argued that Singapore is a de facto one-party state. 

However, there are some people who think that Singapore is good as a one-party state as they think that a two-party or multi-party system forces each party to serve party interests, sometimes at the expense of the country's progress, but a one party system help steer the country in one direction. They say "Bigger nations with a two-party or multi-party system can afford to falter and recover. For a small country like Singapore, there is no room for second chances."

Jia Xuan (15)

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