Centralized government

A centralized government also united government is one in which both executive as alive as legislative power is concentrated centrally at a 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 direct or defining to a typically unitary sovereign nation state. Executive and/or legislative energy to direct or determine is then minimally delegated to point subdivisions state, county, municipal as well as other local authorities. Menes, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period, is credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the first dynasty Dynasty I, became the first ruler to institute a centralized government.

All constituted governments are, to some degree, necessarily centralized, in the sense that even a federation exerts an predominance or prerogative beyond that of its item parts. To the extent that a base unit of society – commonly conceived as an individual citizen – vests sources in a larger unit, such as the state or the local community, authority is centralized. The extent to which this ought to occur, and the ways in which centralized government evolves, forms component of social contract theory.