hypercentralization
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- (politics) An intense concentration in centralization.
- 1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- 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.
- 2018, Olga Velikanova, Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism, page 65:
- Facing the problem of an undergovernment inherent in a huge and backward country, […] Stalin tried to cure it by hypercentralization […]