10 Facts About Decentralization

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In 1983, "Decentralization" was identified as one of the "Ten Key Values" of the Green Movement in the United States.

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Decentralization in any area is a response to the problems of centralized systems.

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Decentralization is often linked to concepts of participation in decision-making, democracy, equality and liberty from a higher authority.

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4.

Decentralization has been described as a response to demands for diversity.

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Decentralization ideally happens as a careful, rational, and orderly process, but it often takes place during times of economic and political crisis, the fall of a regime and the resultant power struggles.

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Decentralization usually is a conscious process based on explicit policies.

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7.

Decentralization cites the mass migration of over one million southern-born African Americans to the North or the West to evade discriminatory Jim Crow laws in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Decentralization believed it destroyed cities' economies and impoverished remaining residents.

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Decentralization is particularly applicable to business or management units which have a high level of independence, complicated products and customers, and technology less relevant to other units.

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10.

Decentralization continues throughout the industry, for example as the decentralized architecture of wireless routers installed in homes and offices supplement and even replace phone companies' relatively centralized long-range cell towers.

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