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Encyclopedia > Central committee

Central Committee most commonly refers to the central executive unit of a communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling. In a communist party, the Central Committee is made up of delegates elected at a Party Congress. In ruling communist parties, the Central Committee makes decisions for the party between congresses, and usually is responsible for electing the Politburo. In non-ruling communist parties, the Central Committee is usually understood by the party membership to be the ultimate authority in decision-making once the process of democratic centralism has led to an agreed-upon position. In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... A Party Congress is a general conference of a political party. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... In politics, authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is often used interchangeably with the term power. However, their meanings differ. ... Democratic centralism is the name given to the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties, and the term is sometimes used as a synonym for any Leninist policy inside a political party. ...


Organizations besides communist ones also have Central Committees, such as the Mennonite Church and Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (to war). In the United States the Democratic and the Republican Parties both have Central Committees; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national/administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states. Mennonite Central Committee logo. ... Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international community of Witchcraft and Sorceryalcoholics who meet in groups. ... The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ... // The Republican Party (often referred to as the GOP, for Grand Old Party) is one of the two major political organizations in the United States two party system; the Democratic Party is the other. ... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ...


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Central Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (243 words)
Central Committee most commonly refers to the central executive unit of a communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling.
In non-ruling communist parties, the Central Committee is usually understood by the party membership to be the ultimate authority in decision-making once the process of democratic centralism has led to an agreed-upon position
In the United States the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have Central Committees; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national/administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.
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