Noun
The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWorld War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. Marshall McLuhan
The reform of our enormous state indeed demanded decentralization and redistribution of powers between the centre and the regions. But the local elites tried to paint this need in the exaggerated colours of 'national survival.' Mikhail Gorbachev
Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account. Friedrich Hayek
Decentralization without structure is chaos. John Zachman
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. Paul Farmer
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. Dorothy Nevill