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federalism

political concept that advocates a federal state
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Summary

federalism is a political ideology[1]. federalism ranks in the top 7% of political ideology entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,684 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: political concept[3]
  • Subclass of: political ideology[4]
  • Commons category: Federalism[5]
  • Opposite of: anti-federalism[6], unitarism[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Federalism[8]
  • Facet of: multi-level governance[9]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory[10]
  • Different from: separation of powers[11], federal system[12], confederalism[13]
  • Practiced by: federalist[14]
  • Has goal: federation[15], federal system[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

federalism has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] federalism is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Institute for Studies in Federalism Saxon People's Party Yugoslav Republican Party

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2dBZIP
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 15w ago · ~2026-36985-58 · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → føderalisme
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: føderativ"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000018-federalismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0000018-federalismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has goal → federation, federal system
    Described by source → Encyclopedia of Political Theory
    Opposite of → anti-federalism, unitarism
    Instance of → political ideology, political concept
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 9471, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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