# kaal:claim:3808852-036

**Claim.** Silent governmental decentralization occurs without explicit policy: unlike affirmative reform, it results from inevitable changes in policy emphasis, networks, and resource availability, and can lead inevitably to a more decentralized system.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** evidenced

**Source quote.**

> While most political decentralization is based on policy changes and affirmative reform efforts, silent governmental decentralization may occur as a result of inevitable changes in policy emphasis, networks, and resource availability.21

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), V. Governmental Decentralization, page 22

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** silent-decentralization, policy-drift, public-administration, governmental-decentralization

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