Territorial quality or condition; association with a particular territory; the position or status of being a territory.

Esp. in political contexts: movement or a tendency to move away from the centre; tendency to decentralize; decentralization.

The action or fact of decentralizing; decentralized condition; esp. in Politics, the weakening of the central authority and distribution of its…

The action of territorialize, v.; an instance of this.

The action or process of provincialize, v.

Chiefly Politics. The theory or practice of regional organization; esp. regional government or control as opposed to centralization; (later also) the…

Advocacy of or support for the interests of a subnation or subnations, as distinguished from those of the nation as a whole.

The action or fact of making or becoming regional; esp. the action or fact of organizing on a regional basis. Also: an instance of this. Cf. region…

The quality of being subsidiary; spec. the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks…

The quality or fact of being centrifugal; tendency to move or be dispersed away from a centre. Later often in extended use, esp. in political and…