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What is "centralism"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
centralism
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
▪ He and Self devoted infinite pains to making this democratic centralism work.
▪ Its recent congress broke from democratic centralism and Marxism-Leninism.
▪ The transference of the principle of democratic centralism from party to state organization further weakens accountability and the role of elected bodies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Democratic centralism is alive and well.
▪ He and Self devoted infinite pains to making this democratic centralism work.
▪ He was far removed from the centralism embodied by his predecessors Ernest Bevin and Arthur Deakin.
▪ Its recent congress broke from democratic centralism and Marxism-Leninism.
▪ The defining elements of Pilkingtons' management culture had been technical excellence and centralism.
▪ The transference of the principle of democratic centralism from party to state organization further weakens accountability and the role of elected bodies.
▪ What will that newly defined concept mean in terms of moving either closer to or further away from centralism?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centralism

Centralism \Cen"tral*ism\, n.

  1. The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

  2. The system by which power is centralized, as in a government.

Wiktionary
centralism

n. A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

WordNet
centralism

n. the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization

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Usage examples of "centralism".

I was sick with the disease of conciliationism towards Menshevism and with a distrustful attitude toward Leninist centralism.

This may, indeed, be changed, but only to substitute for imperial centralism democratic centralism, which were no improvement, or to go back to the system of antagonisms, checks and balances, called constitutionalism, or parliamentary government, of which Great Britain is the model, and which were a return toward barbarism, or mediaeval feudalism.