Centralism

Word CENTRALISM
Character 10
Hyphenation cen tral ism
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Definitions and meanings of "Centralism"

What do we mean by centralism?

Concentration of power and authority in a central organization, as in a political system. noun

Centralizing tendency or tendencies; the principle of centralization, especially in regard to political and governmental influence and control. noun

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization. noun

The system by which power is centralized, as in a government. noun

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind. noun

The political policy of concentrating power in a central organization noun

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

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The word "centralism" in example sentences

Democratic centralism is one of those terms that make the eyes glaze over, like so many authoritarian and statist terminologies. ❋ Newmania (2007)

But in September Mr Hu dropped a not-so-subtle hint of his own reservations, emphasising the principle of "centralism" - which means upholding party decisions without dissent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is the greatness of the principle of democratic centralism which is the basis for the existence and functioning of a communist party. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

We believe in centralism which is democratically centralised. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The core of the problem is the principle of "centralism". ❋ Unknown (2009)

From its pro-business stance, to its Leninst characteristic of “democratic centralism” (the GOP tolerates internal dissent far less than the Democrats, which is why the Republicans can be an effective minority more easily than the Democrats can be an effective majority), the only thing the Republicans have that the Communists do not is a large religious faction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those of us who left the party because of Blair's centralism will be waiting to see if the membership will once again make policy under Miliband's leadership, or if this is another example of bypassing the membership in favour of a vague notion of "supporters" who have no responsibility to any coherent party organisation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For all its liberalism the PCI, unable to tolerate such a breach of democratic centralism, expelled the Manifesto group, though Magri insists "we did not mean to harm the party". ❋ Unknown (2012)

No local politician of any stripe is going to do everything they might like to for their population in this fix, and especially not since Britain's fiscal centralism blocks every theoretical escape. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Polly Toynbee Comment, 17 May presents a false choice between benign centralism and fractious localism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Otherwise, centralism, which meant in practice central government, ruled OK.So how might Margaret Thatcher feel about the current government's approach to local government? ❋ Unknown (2011)

This perspective allows a consideration of policy chimeras based on the merits, the default position being one of centralism (for all the reasons enumerated in the post and in comments). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile, the Obama insurgency, quickly receding into short-term crisis management, adopts the Republican playbook: corporate supplication, presidential centralism, global expansionism, empty electoral pandering, and nuanced Social Darwinism. ❋ James Block (2011)

There's a creeping centralism in the church at the moment that everything is going to centralization and there's a creeping authoritarianism, he told Australian Broadcasting Corp. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Inevitably, there was always an element of myth here, as well as doubts about the centralism involved, but it was precisely by putting the national into the service that the Clement Attlee government removed the financial dimension from medical anxieties. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"This centralism is killing and paralyzing everything," says the Kurdish governor of Kirkuk, Najmaldin Karim, who favors the partition of Iraq into three or more regions, with Baghdad becoming a "federal zone." ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

Blair's chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, boasted of replacing feudal Whitehall baronies with a Napoleonic centralism. ❋ Michael White (2010)

As for Osborne's proposal to freeze council tax, it is the purest centralism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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