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Central vs distributed government. Which do you think works better?

• makeitdouble 5y ago
  A mixture of both is the usual approach I think. A central government delegating most of the day to day management of citizen's environment to local, highly autonomous entities is a common pattern.
• fennecfoxen 5y ago
  Federalism!
• Clubber 5y ago
  Central allows the majority to rule the minority. Distributed allows the majority to rule the minority but also allows groups to move to a jurisdiction where they can be the majority, or at least have a more friendly government while central does not. Central is certainly easier for the rulers though and they have much more power and resources.
• pigeons 5y ago
  Depends which tradeoffs you are comfortable with and which aspects affect one's individual definition of "better".