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  1. A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create or abolish administrative divisions (sub-national units).

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      A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority...

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      A federation (also called a federal state) is a political...

  2. Unitary state, a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government. In a unitary state, the central government commonly delegates authority to subnational units and channels policy decisions down to them for implementation.

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  4. Jul 18, 2018 · It first outlines a novel conceptualization of de/centralization and its relation to the unitary/federal distinction and a/symmetry, from which it derives static and dynamic typologies of state structures.

    • Paolo Dardanelli
    • 2019
  5. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government. Of the 193 UN member states , 126 are governed as centralized unitary states, and an additional 40 are regionalized unitary states.

  6. May 17, 2021 · This article examines the limits to the roots of the UK Government’s insistence that the UK is a unitary state, and not a union-state, in the textbook tradition of constitutional scholarship. Writers from A. V. Dicey to S. A. de Smith asserted that the UK was a unitary state largely as an adjunct to their accounts of parliamentary sovereignty.

    • Daniel Wincott, C.R.G. Murray, Gregory Davies
    • 2021
  7. Oct 16, 2022 · As a result, this article revises the unitary-federal classification based on developments in n=70 selected countries from 1970 to 2018, as measured by the Regional Authority Index, an annual...

  8. Aug 5, 2013 · We use the Scopus database to identify the 250 most heavily used journals in each of 26 research fields (4620 journals in total), and estimate a variety of models to identify what makes...