#Separation and distribution of authority, resources, and/or bureaucratic processes and jurisdictions to lower levels of [[government]]. [http://www.elissetche.org/dico/D.htm]
#is any act in which a central government formally cedes powers to actors and institutions at lower levels in a political-administrative and territorial [[hierarchy]]. [http://www.elissetche.org/dico/D.htm]
#Decentralisation (or decentralization) is any of various means of more widely distributing decision-making to bring it closer to the point of service or action. It occurs in a great many contexts in engineering, management science, political science, political economy, [[:Category:Sociology|sociology]] and economics - each of which could be said to study mass decision-making by groups too large to consult with each other very directly... [[Wikipedia:Decentralization]]