subnationalismn.
/sʌbˈnaʃn̩əlɪz(ə)m/, /sʌbˈnaʃn̩l̩ɪz(ə)m/, /sʌbˈnaʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /sʌbˈnaʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Advocacy of or support for the interests of a subnation or subnations, as distinguished from those of the nation as a whole.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > regionalism or decentralization
territoriality1771
centrifugalism1844
decentralization1846
territorialization1850
provincialization1866
regionalism1871
subnationalism1881
regionalization1919
subsidiarity1936
centrifugality1957
1881 C. Reemelin Crit. Rev. Amer. Polit. p. xvii This nationalization or Americanization, with its subsequent permissive sub-nationalism, sub-Americanism, or state-ism.
1957 Economist 7 Sept. 739/2 This theoretically sensible policy ran up against the sub-nationalism of the local peoples.
1974 G. W. Choudhury Last Days United Pakistan i. 1 Emerging Bengali regionalism or sub-nationalism.
2001 J. H. Mittelman Globalization Syndrome vi. 118 The state is constrained by a problem of supranationalism and subnationalism, facing pressures from above and below.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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