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Decentralization   Listen
noun
decentralization  n.  
1.
The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France."
2.
The spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments.





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"Decentralization" Quotes from Famous Books



... Taounate, Taroudannt, Tata, Taza, Tetouan, Tiznit note: three additional provinces of Ad Dakhla (Oued Eddahab), Boujdour, and Es Smara as well as parts of Tan-Tan and Laayoune fall within Moroccan-claimed Western Sahara; decentralization/regionalization law passed by the legislature in March 1997 creating many new provinces/regions; specific details and scope of the ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the capital? Why, in case our territory be invaded and Paris besieged, cannot the legislative, executive, and military powers act outside of Paris? Why this localization of all the vital forces of France?... Do not cry out upon decentralization. This hackneyed reproach would discredit only your own intelligence and sincerity. It is not a question of decentralization; it is your political fetichism which I attack. Why should the national unity be attached to a certain place, to certain functionaries, to certain bayonets? ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon
... growing private sector and is a major player in the global economy. Reforms started in the late 1970s with the phasing out of collectivized agriculture, and expanded to include the gradual liberalization of prices, fiscal decentralization, increased autonomy for state enterprises, the foundation of a diversified banking system, the development of stock markets, the rapid growth of the non-state sector, and the opening to foreign trade and investment. China has generally implemented reforms ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... created a system of Federal government which retains the advantages of local self-government for the states, but at the same time secures the strength which results from union. The government of the United States is a compromise between centralization and decentralization, the balance between these two extremes being maintained by a rather elaborate system of checks, balances, ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson


Words linked to "Decentralization" :   decentralisation, spread, centralization, social process


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