Politics Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

— Anthony Gregory

To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“The state has an "annexationist" character tending toward centralization and the development of a Provider State. We must uphold the principle of subsidiarity. Action…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to stop, they…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“We saw in the previous chapter how the process of political centralization under the Tudor monarchy in England increased demands for voice and representation…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“It is a central thesis of this book that centralization has reached diminishing returns and is no longer yielding any benefit. Instead, it has…

— Charles Hugh Smith

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will…

— Mikhail Bakunin