List of banned political parties

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Media regulation Books books banned Films banned films Internet circumvention Music Postal Press Radio Speech and expression Student media Televisions banned televisions Thought Video games banned video games
Methods Bleeping Book burning Broadcast delay Cancel culture Censor bars Chilling effect Collateral censorship Concision Conspiracy of silence Content-control software Damnatio memoriae De-banking Deplatforming Euphemism Minced oath Expurgation Fogging Gag order Gatekeeping Hallin's spheres Heckling Heckler's veto Hush money Internet police Malinformation Memory hole National intranet Newspaper theft Opinion corridor Overton window Pixelization Political correctness Prior restraint Propaganda Purge Redaction Revisionism Sanitization Self-censorship Shadow banning Social rejection Speech code Spiral of silence Strategic lawsuit Surveillance computer and network mass Taboo Whitewashing Word filtering
Contexts AI Algorithmic Chinese censorship abroad Criminal Corporate Apple Facebook Google Hate speech Online Ideological Academic LGBT issues Media bias Moral police Moralistic fallacy Naturalistic fallacy Politics Banned parties Political prisoner Propaganda model Religious Blasphemy law Islamic Police Suppression of dissent Systemic bias Wikipedia
By country Censorship by country Blasphemy law Freedom of speech Internet censorship In the Middle East In South Asia
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This article provides a list of political parties that were or are currently banned by the countries in which they were or are based. Party bans can be democratic or authoritarian.^[1] "Altering the character of the nation" has been referenced as an argument for banning parties.^[2] Ethnic party bans are prevalent in parts of Africa.^[3]

^ Bernatskyi, Bohdan (2024). "Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans". Comparative European Politics. 22 (6): 754–791. doi:10.1057/s41295-024-00381-9. ISSN 1472-4790.
^ Rosenblum, Nancy L. (1 January 2007). "Banning Parties: Religious and Ethnic Partisanship in Multicultural Democracies". Law & Ethics of Human Rights. 1 (1): 17–75. doi:10.2202/1938-2545.1002. ISSN 1938-2545.
^ Koos, Agnes Katalin (2020). "Ethnic Party Bans from a Minority Rights Perspective". The International Journal of Community Diversity. 20 (2): 17–32. doi:10.18848/2327-0004/CGP/v20i02/17-32. ISSN 2327-0004.