Criticism
Arend Lijhpart does not include communist countries in the list of Consociational and Semi-consociational Democracy regarding study of plural societies, and during critical analysis of his views, Asim Ejaz argued that despite there being a single party system, society still remains divided into different segments. No one can prevent different segments with varied interests from joining that particular political party, like the Chinese Communist Party in China, or the Cuban Communist Party in Cuba. Segments of plural society can represent themselves within that political party, creating an influence upon decision-making based on their own interests or in favour of that segment after having due share in that political party. So Single party system is also included in the consociational or semi-consociational democracies, whenever there is not domination of that political party by a particular segment of society. Openness for joining even a single political party is also an example of democratic socialism, which is purely local cultural based, characterized by their local traditions, even successful in the People's Republic of China nowadays, where Mongolians from "Inner Mongolia", Han and Yugur from "Xinjiang", Tibetan from "Tibet" and several other segments of society are joining the Communist party of China without any hurdles and contributing to their welfare as well as others in their country.
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