Its structure is decentralized.

In addition, some scholars contend that China has never operated under a decentralized democratic regime in its several thousand years of history, and therefore it can be argued that the present political structure, albeit not up to Western moral or political standards, is the best possible option when compared to the alternatives.

The political movement that began in 1984 as the decentralized Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) evolved into a more centralized structure by 1990, opening a national clearinghouse, and forming governing bodies, bylaws, and a platform under the name The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) and by 1990, simply, The Greens.

A decentralized organization shows fewer tiers in the organizational structure, wider span of control, and a bottom-to-top flow of decision-making and flow of ideas.

In a more decentralized organization, the top executives delegate much of their decision-making authority to lower tiers of the organizational structure.

The anarchic ordering principle of the international structure is decentralized, having no formal central authority, and is composed of formally equal sovereign states.

Following its departure from the CQRS in 1996, Falun Gong came under increased scrutiny from authorities and responded by adopting a more decentralized and loose organizational structure.

At the same time, Lacoste proposed a new administrative structure that would give Algeria a degree of autonomy and a decentralized government.

This represented a new unity in the feudal structure, which featured an increasingly large bureaucracy to administer the mixture of centralized and decentralized authorities.

Critical Mass has a decentralized ( rather than hierarchical ) structure.

The organizational structure is decentralized: each convivium has a leader who is responsible for promoting local artisans, local farmers, and local flavors through regional events such as Taste Workshops, wine tastings, and farmers ' markets.

Subsequent expansion relied on creating a strongly decentralized regional structure, beginning with the Northeast ( Tysons Corner Center, 1988 ), Midwest ( Oakbrook Center, 1991 ), Southeast ( Atlanta, 1998 ), and Southwest ( Dallas, 1996 ) to which the California stores were added.

It is unusual amongst university student governments for its decentralized bicameral structure, and the relatively non-existent influence of the Greek system.

** the attacker has a decentralized organizational structure

The Vineyard has a highly decentralized organizational structure, reflecting the church's belief that local and regionally-based management, ministries and outreach are more effective.

The Ontario Green Party did not originally have a formal leadership structure, and was run in a very decentralized manner ( nominal leaders were sometimes chosen for elections, but they had no personal authority over party decisions ).

CUPE has an extremely decentralized structure, in which each local elects its own executive, sets its own dues structure, conducts its own bargaining and strike votes, and sends delegates to division and national conventions to form overarching policy.

In 1976 he moved to Milan, and took part in activities of the PAC, an autonomist Marxist group which conducted armed struggle, and which had a " horizontal ", decentralized structure, opposed to the centralist organisation of the Red Brigades ( BR ).

Problems included a decentralized management structure, changing requirements, and unexpected technical difficulties that increased size and weight goals that made it harder to add the required waveforms.

Central to all Gnostic philosophy was an individual attainment of spiritual understanding and experience rather than one based on dogma, they often had decentralized church structure and given that Gnostics believed we are all divine and one within the " fullness " they had a strong emphasis on equality.

In addition, there are a number of decentralized decision-making bodies within the co-op structure ; such as, Division Councils, Division Social Councils, Interdivision Social Council, Interdivision Council, and a variety of potential committees for activities such as sports, social outreach, and environmental.

This also coincided with significant changes to the organizational structure of the co-op, creating a complex hierarchy of decentralized decision-making bodies.

Haugalandmuseene has a decentralized structure, with administration located at Karmsund folk museum.

The BSI Group as a whole does not produce British Standards, as standards work within the BSI is decentralized.

There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day ; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: " Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized.

This is not a Federal state however, simply a decentralized one, as the majority of the domains of power are still vested in the Central government.

Thus, the Debian Project is an independent decentralized organization ; it is not backed by a company like Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and Mandriva.

The assumption behind this legislation is the idea that having economic activity decentralized among many different industry participants is better for the economy than having one or a few large players in an industry.

The network is designed to be highly survivable, with all internal processes completely anonymized and decentralized across the network.

Hayek posited that a central planning authority would have to be endowed with powers that would impact and ultimately control social life, because the knowledge required for centrally planning an economy is inherently decentralized, and would need to be brought under control.

Gnutella ( with a silent g, but often ) ( possibly by analogy with the GNU Project ) is a large peer-to-peer network which, at the time of its creation, was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model.

One of the benefits of having gnutella so decentralized is to make it very difficult to shut the network down and to make it a network in which the users are the only ones who can decide which content will be available.

The highly decentralized and democratic nature of the proposed De Leonist government is in contrast to the democratic centralism of Marxism – Leninism and what they see as the dictatorial nature of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and other " communist " states.

Admission to graduate programs is decentralized ; applicants apply directly to the department or degree program.

This rapid growth of instantaneous, decentralized communication is often deemed likely to change mass media and its relationship to society.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

Currently it is a decentralized institution of the Ministry of Public Works, headed by a chairman appointed by the Head of State and the Council of Ministers.

Syndicalists state that society is to be organised bottom-up based on direct democracy, confederation, workplace democracy and decentralized socialism, and that to get to such a society they may either initiate a general strike through direct action and workplace occupation or-in the case of reformist syndicalists-develop the syndicalist economics alongside the state, in competition to it.

Though highly decentralized, Spain is not a federation since the nation — as represented in the central institutions of government — retains full sovereignty.

The church is decentralized with the General Conference being the official governing body.

Today, in most Muslim countries, zakat is collected through a decentralized and voluntary system, where eligible Muslims are expected to pay the zakat based on worship and love of God.

Liberation theology could be interpreted as a western attempt to return to the gospel of the early church where Christianity is politically and culturally decentralized.

A hierarchical organisation is one example that can generate emergent behaviour ( a bureaucracy may behave in a way quite different from that of the individual humans in that bureaucracy ); but perhaps more interestingly, emergent behaviour can also arise from more decentralized organisational structures, such as a marketplace.