centralized control
Power from one
Centralized control is the concentration of decision-making authority in a single person, body, or location rather than distributing it among multiple actors.
The term appears in discussions of government, corporate management, and computer systems: The regime maintained centralized control over all media.
The opposite is decentralized or distributed control.
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- autocracyRule by one
- corporate governanceCompany direction and control
command economy · tight grip · panopticon · bureaucracy · nerve center · monarchy · totalitarianism · system administrator · single point of failure · supply chain management · vertical integration · pulling the strings · monopoly power · power grab · regime · top down · puppet · behind the curtain
- central powerpower consolidation, state power, supreme authority, federal authority, national government
- Network Virtualizationvirtualization, controller, controllers, hypervisor, flow
- socialist lawone-party rule, state ownership, public property, expropriation, collective ownership
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive
- top-downhierarchy, pyramid, chain of command, command structure, trickle-down
- DDR PoliceStasi, border guards, state security, secret police, political police
centralized controldecentralization
Distributing power from center
federalism · devolution · subsidiarity · regional autonomy · states' rights
centralized controlanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
self-governance · laissez-faire · self-determination · autonomy · individual liberty