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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...
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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...
The three political arrangements under consideration in Sri Lanka are a unitary state, a federal state within a united Sri Lanka, and two separate states - one a Sinhala majority state and the other a Tamil majority one. The political positions are the Tamil liberal, the Tamil nationalist, the Sinhala liberal, the Sinhala nationalist and the left-
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unitary state, a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government, in contrast to a federal state. A brief treatment of the unitary state follows. For additional discussion, see Political system: Unitary nation-states; federation; confederation.
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A unitary state, or unitary government, is a governing system in which a single central government has total power over all of its other political subdivisions. A unitary state is the opposite of a federation, where governmental powers and responsibilities are divided.
research has attempted to probe critically the theory of decentralism or to test systematically the policy impact of decentralized systems of governance. In this paper we focus on one aspect of decentralization, the constitutional choice between federal and unitary structures of government. This feature of politics may or
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The states of a confederation retain all the powers of an independent nation, such as the right to maintain a military force, print money, and make treaties with other national powers. The United States began its nationhood as a confederate state, under the Articles of Confederation.
