Perils of centralization : lessons from church, state, and corporation / Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan.
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TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: xii, 205 pages ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781107616943
- General Motors Corporation -- Management -- History
- Catholic Church -- Government -- History
- Decentralization in government -- Case studies
- Decentralization in management -- Case studies
- Executive power -- Case studies
- Decentralization in government -- United States
- Decentralization in government -- European Union countries
- Federal government -- United States
- Federal government -- European Union countries
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
- 320.4049 KOL
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Trajectories in federated institutions; 3. Nation-state; 4. Church; 5. Corporation; 6. International political union; 7. The elusive balance.
"In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Ken Kollman examines the histories of the US government, the Catholic Church, General Motors, and the European Union as examples of federated systems that centralized power over time. He shows how their institutions became locked-in to intensive power in the executive. The problem with these and other federated systems is that they often cannot decentralize even if it makes sense. The analysis leads Kollman to suggest some surprising changes in institutional design for these four cases and for federated institutions everywhere"--
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