# kaal:claim:3411897-001

**Claim.** Decentralization is not merely the redistribution of centrally organized authority or revenue, nor the delegation of centralized authority to managers at all organizational levels; the author stipulates these negative boundaries to separate decentralization from centralized reform.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- applies to the author's stipulated working definition of decentralization

**Source quote.**

> Decentralization is not just the redistribution of centrally organized authority or redistribution of centrally collected revenue · Decentralization is not just the delegation of centralized authority to managers on all levels of an organization

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part I: The Past, What is Decentralization?, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design

**Keywords.** decentralization, definition, centralization, organizational-theory

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-007

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