Particracy

As a State party state is referred to, its state power is in the hands of social parties and interest groups essentially. He is a complete party state, if you locate the various " branches of government " (legislative, executive and judicial) exclusively in the hands, formed into social forces, such as political parties. This kind of a social system is also called party rule.

A party state is a democracy, if the parties make democratic elections and participate in the formation of public opinion - as is the case in Germany, for example, because of Article 21 of the Basic Law and the Law on Political Parties. Whether and to what extent one party democracy has also party state characteristics, is a matter of the case, and whether this is adversely a question of evaluation.

So trends were the party of law in the first half of the 20th century criticized, inter alia, by Carl Schmitt, Othmar Spann and Oswald Spengler, however, in the second half justified by the party-state theory of Gerhard Leibholz.

No party state, but rather the opposite would be an absolute state with side effects such as dominance of state bureaucracy as the official State or government bureaucrats. Even a strictly democratic basis organized Soviet Republic, a demarchy or a dictatorship can do without parties.