microgovernment

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ government.

Noun

microgovernment (plural microgovernments)

  1. A very small or local government.
    • 1998 September 19, Jonathan Rauch, “Tunnel Vision: The Dawn of Microgovernment”, in National Journal‎[1], archived from the original on 6 March 2012:
      What was seen from the top down, as a large environment with many difficult trade-offs, is instead seen from the bottom up--as 10 million microenvironments, each to be regulated in its own right. It is this inversion of perspective that distinguishes microgovernment from other kinds of regulation, and that accounts for its often-bizarre behavior.
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