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Decentralization

Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.

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Decentralization

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Triples274
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related to Further reading · 143
Decentralization → Aceh, And The Promise, Arjan, Armed Separatism, Asian Cities, Aucoin, Autonomy, Autonomy Policies, Below, Bennett, Bolivia, Breaking Away, Brief Reconstruction, Bunnell, Burton, Børge Obel, Cambridge University Press, Campbell, Canadian Government, Charles
related to In government policy · 19
Decentralization → Ancient Greece, BC, Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Darius, Hall, He, Historians, In, Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Persian, Rising, Sanderson, Since, Stephen, Stone Age, The History, Thomas, Yildiz Atasoy
related to history · 15
Decentralization → All, And, Centralization, English, France, French, French Revolution, Ideas, In, Maurice Block, Mentions, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Revolution French Directory, The, Tocqueville
related to Administrative · 10
Decentralization → All, Deconcentration, Delegation, Devolution, Divestment, Facilities, Four, It, Many, Or
related to Market · 8
Decentralization → According, American, But, Cato Institute, Even, For, From, Market
related to Systems approach · 8
Decentralization → An, However, If, It, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Norman Johnson, Those, United Nations Development Programme
related to Environmental · 7
Decentralization → Central, Devolution, India, It, Selling, Such, They
related to In technology and the Internet · 7
Decentralization → Advances, Concepts, Generally, However, Technological, Technologies, Technology
related to Information technology · 6
Decentralization → Executives, Information, Internet, The, They, This
related to Processes · 6
Decentralization → Bottom-up, Gauging, Some, The, They, Top-down

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government decentralized political local may decision-making public new centralized information power private central economic like governments services system national authority

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Decentralizationis aprocess by which the activities of an organization0.90text
libertarian municipalisminstance ofLibertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy0.80text
citizens' assembliesinstance ofLibertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy0.80text
or workers' councilsinstance ofLibertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy0.80text
those of Adam Smith returned to prominence in the 1970sinstance ofFree marketFree market ideas popular in the 19th century0.80text
1980sinstance ofFree marketFree market ideas popular in the 19th century0.80text
televisioninstance ofas well as information distribution technologies0.80text
telephonesinstance ofas well as information distribution technologies0.80text
printersinstance ofDecentralized systems still enable file sharing and all computers can share peripherals0.80text
scanners as well as modemsinstance ofDecentralized systems still enable file sharing and all computers can share peripherals0.80text
allowing all the computers in the network to connect to the internet.A collection of decentralized computers systems are components of a larger computer networkinstance ofDecentralized systems still enable file sharing and all computers can share peripherals0.80text
held together by local stations of equal importanceinstance ofDecentralized systems still enable file sharing and all computers can share peripherals0.80text

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