Centralized government
A centralized government (also united government) is one in which both executive and legislative
early dynastic period, is credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the first dynasty (Dynasty I), became the first ruler to institute a centralized government.[1]
All constituted governments are, to some degree, necessarily centralized, in the sense that even a federation exerts an authority or prerogative beyond that of its constituent parts. To the extent that a base unit of society – usually conceived as an individual citizen – vests authority in a larger unit, such as the state or the local community, authority is centralized. The extent to which this ought to occur, and the ways in which centralized government evolves, forms part of social contract theory.
See also
- Authoritarianism
- Centralization
- Decentralized system
- Decentralization
- Unicameralism
- Unitary state
- Democratic centralism
References
- ^ Williams, C (1987), The Destruction of Black Civilization, Chicago: Third World Press, p. 80.
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