unitary state

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unitary
adjective
uk /ˈjuː.nɪ.tər.i/ us /ˈjuː.nɪ.ter.i/
of a system of local government in the UK in which official power is given to one organization that deals with all matters in a local area instead of to several organizations that each deal with only a ...
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state
noun
uk /steɪt/ us /steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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Examples of unitary state

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Strong executive leadership emerges first from the centralization of political power within a unitarystate structure.
The centralist forces of the unitarystate do not live comfortably with so many rivals.
This last fact means that fear cannot be a unitarystate, and it is necessary to assume at least two different fear constructs.
Ironically, 'federal' is preferred by supporters of more integration while their opponents prefer 'ever closer union', which, literally, would eventually mean a centralised, unitarystate.
Our equation can still describe the unitarystate vector evolution within this region.
The institutions of the unitarystate also appear to have failed in moulding the society into a 'unitary' one.
They started to resent their region's loss of autonomy and the allegedly subordinate position of the anglophone minority in the unitarystate.
As a result it can over-state the construction of evaluation as a unitarystate-centred practice and miss its contested and complex nature.
During the foundation of the unitarystate, a division of labour was created that is still more or less in operation today.
The country has constitutionally remained a unitarystate whereby all local governments are subordinate to the central government.
In fact, politicians of a unitarystate have taken part in a process of carving out the central state into much weaker smaller components.
In all of these countries, financial regulation is historically grown and strongly embedded in federalist or unitarystate structures, patterns of state-society relations or legal traditions.
Institutional features such as the system of majority voting, single party governments and a unitarystate structure strengthen the government's capacity to act once it has decided to do so.
Ahidjo looked upon federalism as an unavoidable stage in the establishment of a strong unitarystate, and employed various tactics to achieve this objective.
In a fully unitarystate, territorial units (if any) have no constitutional standing, no independently elected territorial legislature, no specific policy purviews reserved to them, and minimal revenue-raising authority.
If, however, the unitarystate is the rule, then cultural pluralism, that is distinctiveness, cannot be reflected by the legal system as legal pluralism, and becomes the exception.
In a unitarystate, the furthest flung areas have as strong a claim to efficient public services as anywhere else.
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The inclusion of "federal" is odd because the draft articles plainly describe a unitarystate.
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