hypercentralization

English

Alternative forms

• hyper-centralisation
• hypercentralisation
• hyper-centralization

Noun

hypercentralization (uncountable)

1. (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 […]