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hypercentralization

hypercentralization noun: an intense concentration in centralization.

Noun

hypercentralization (uncountable)

  1. An intense concentration in centralization.
    • This implies a situation in which the logic of the plan—not capitalist imperatives—remains central, but where the leadership becomes at best one whose impatience with the people lead it toward a hypercentralization of power and toward a self-defeating forcing of the pace of development.1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 18
    • Facing the problem of an undergovernment inherent in a huge and backward country, […] Stalin tried to cure it by hypercentralization […]2018, Olga Velikanova, Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism, page 65

Forms of hypercentralization

alternative formhyper-centralisation
alternative formhypercentralisation
alternative formhyper-centralization

Questions about hypercentralization

What does hypercentralization mean?
Hypercentralization means an intense concentration in centralization.
What part of speech is hypercentralization?
Hypercentralization is a noun.

Words near hypercentralization in the dictionary

  1. hypercellulolytic
  2. hypercementoses
  3. hypercementosis
  4. hypercementotic
  5. hypercentral
  6. hypercentralization
  7. hypercerebral
  8. hyperchaos
  9. hyperchaotic
  10. hypercharge
  11. hypercharged

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