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  2. Decentralised system - Wikipedia

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    A decentralised system in systems theory is a system in which lower level components operate on local information to accomplish global goals. The global pattern of behaviour is an emergent property of dynamical mechanisms that act upon local components, such as indirect communication, rather than the result of a central ordering influence of a ...

  3. Decentralization - Wikipedia

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    Decentralization in any area is a response to the problems of centralized systems. Decentralization in government, the topic most studied, has been seen as a solution to problems like economic decline, government inability to fund services and their general decline in performance of overloaded services, the demands of minorities for a greater ...

  4. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  5. List of countries by federal system - Wikipedia

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    The country has been quoted as being "an extraordinarily decentralized country", with the central government accounting for just 18% of public spending, [28] 38% for the regional governments, 13% for the local councils, and the remaining 31% for the social security system. [29]

  6. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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    This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of countries by system of government" – news ...

  7. Devolution - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. Granting of some competences of central government to local government This article is about the form of government. For other uses, see Devolution (disambiguation). "Devolved parliament" redirects here. For the painting, see Devolved Parliament (Banksy). See also: Subsidiarity and ...

  8. Unitary state - Wikipedia

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    A unitary system of government can be considered to be the opposite of federalism. In federations, the provincial/regional governments share powers with the central government as equal actors through a written constitution, to which the consent of both is required to make amendments. This means that the sub-national units have a right to ...

  9. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    Mahatma Gandhi advocated Panchayati Raj as the foundation of India's political system, as a decentralized form of government in which each village would be responsible for its own affairs. [12] [13] The term for such a vision was Gram Swaraj ("village self-governance"). Instead, India developed a highly centralized form of government. [14]