Centralism facts for kids
Centralism is an idea on how to organize a state or government. The idea is to focus this organization under a single government instead of using many local government bodies. In many cases, this makes communication easier. An organization that is an example for centralism is the Roman Catholic Church.
Related pages
- Devolution, the opposite concept
- Democratic centralism, a concept of Vladimir Lenin; he used the idea of centalism to organise political parties.
Images for kids
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Diagrams of systems in various degrees of centralisation. From left to right: centralisation, decentralisation, distribution, and distributed decentralisation.
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Diagram comparing centralised versus decentralised designs of water sectors
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A centralised air conditioning unit
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An animation representing centralised information processing
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