overcentralization
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a word derived from
centralization.
centralizationnounthe act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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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
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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