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  • noun A supporter of decentralism.

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Examples

  • Add to that "decentralist", I admit to assuming something along the lines of "workers' councils and cooperatives."

    The desperation of Welsh Unionism 2008

  • I mean, one kind of decentralist politics that you might endorse would be to advocate the secession of urban centers from the surrounding states and a decentralist order that’s partly based on people forming a network of poleis around these urban centers.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – September – 26 2008

  • I mean, one kind of decentralist politics that you might endorse would be to advocate the secession of urban centers from the surrounding states and a decentralist order that’s partly based on people forming a network of poleis around these urban centers.

    Metropolitan secession 2008

  • David Cameron has learned that it's easy to be a small-statist, a decentralist, even a libertarian, in opposition: harder but sometimes more important when the pressure's on and the levers in your hands.

    Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton 2011

  • Ah, what a golden age of decentralist socialism that must have been!

    Plaid's agenda exposed 2009

  • As everybody knows, Guto was once a member of Plaid Cymru, until he made the shock discovery that "decentralist socialism" included the word "socialism".

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Second, third-wave technology is as inherently democratic and decentralist as second-wave technology was authoritarian and centralist.

    Vermont and Secession, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • As everybody knows, Guto was once a member of Plaid Cymru, until he made the shock discovery that "decentralist socialism" included the word "socialism".

    Monday musings 2009

  • Ah, what a golden age of decentralist socialism that must have been!

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Decentralist socialism is not 'classical' centralist socialism, hence the use of the word 'decentralist'.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

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