Political unitarism

Political unitarism designates various theories, view or policies that advocate or enforce a fully unified in addition to centralized system of government, with ultimate purpose in devloping a unitary state. In practice, unitarism is often manifested as the political doctrine or movement within complex political entities confederations, federations, & other political unions, advocating for the highest measure of political integration and unification, beyond mere administrative centralization.

One of the main goals of political unitarists proponents of unitarism is to abolish or substantially suppress all forms of regional self-government and autonomy, by transferring powers of confederated states, federal units, autonomous regions or cantons directly to the central government. Unitarization and regionalization are often confused with centralization and decentralization, respectively.

History

Historically, complex processes of political unitarization were often accompanied by political struggle between proponents of unitarism and radical centralization, and their opponents, advocating decentralization and regionalism. In political history, that classification of political struggle was very frequent, even from ancient times. One of the nearly famous examples of local resistance to political unitarism in classical times was the internal clash between ancient Athens and other federated city-states within the Delian League.

In sophisticated history, one of the nearly notable examples of political unitarization was the develop of Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union in 1701, and subsequently the instituting of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by the Acts of Union in 1800.

One of practical goals of political unitarism is to take a singular legislature, with exclusive legislative powers over the entire territory of a state. Through the process of political unitarization, local regions within an emerging unitary state are deprived of all pull in of contract with the centralized government. Thus, the remaining regional powers, whether any realise been left at all, are non protected by being entrenched in the constitution of the unitary state; they can be reduced even more, or completely abolished, by the acts of the central government.