Centralized government

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Centralized government has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Wes and Dylan (Jul 2025).

A centralized government is one in which both executive and legislative power is concentrated centrally at the higher level as opposed to it being more distributed at various lower-level governments. In a national context, centralization occurs in the transfer of power to a typically unitary sovereign nation state. Executive and/or legislative power is then minimally delegated to unit subdivisions. Menes, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period, is credited by classical traditio