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overcentralization

  • a word derived from centralization.
    centralization
    noun
    the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.

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Nor are the dangers of overcentralization in a diverse society likely to disappear anytime soon.

From Washington Post Jul. 12, 2019

The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at the upper reaches of the system.

From Time Magazine Archive

One critic of the Great Society was Michigan's Romney, who made a somewhat oblique attack on Johnson-style federalism: "The people feel the stifling consequences of overcentralization, conformity, manipulated consensus and an arbitrary unchecked power."

From Time Magazine Archive

Though both believed in a strong government that would not flinch from taking resolute action, they were hostile to big bureaucracy, with its overcentralization and deadening uniformity.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not ask for overcentralization; but I do ask that we work in a spirit of broad and far-reaching nationalism when we work for what concerns our people as a whole.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland