Summary :
IT IS BY NOW commonplace to note that “decentralization” and “privatization” are worldwide movements. Not only in Western Europe and the United States, but also in the Third World, governments are trying to lessen their presence (at least in the economy), unload state enterprises, and rely more on private markets. At least in the Western democracies, common themes are reducing the role of national government, lowering public spending, reducing the direct provision of services, and intervening less in the lives of citizens. In each society, however, these ideas have different meanings and policies and raise different issues. In the United States, decentralization, deregulation, and privatization are usually thought of along two historic dimensions: the allocation of authority between units of government and between state and market.Within organizations, whether public or private, decentralization refers to the process of assigning more responsibilities to lower organizational units.

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