Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Concentration of power and authority in a central organization, as in a political system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Centralizing tendency or tendencies; the principle of centralization, especially in regard to political and governmental influence and control.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
system thatcentralizes , especially anadministration of some kind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization
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Examples
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Democratic centralism is one of those terms that make the eyes glaze over, like so many authoritarian and statist terminologies.
Cannot Resist Newmania 2007
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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.
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That is the greatness of the principle of democratic centralism which is the basis for the existence and functioning of a communist party.
Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007
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We believe in centralism which is democratically centralised.
SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, ANC NEC MEMBER, OPENING THE ANC CONFERENCE OF THE MPUMALANGA PROVINCE 2002
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We believe in centralism which is democratically centralised.
SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, ANC NEC MEMBER, OPENING THE ANC CONFERENCE OF THE NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE 2002
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The core of the problem is the principle of "centralism".
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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).
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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.
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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.
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"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."
Violence Jolts Iraq Sam Dagher 2011
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