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social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > federalism and local politics > subsidiarity
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subsidiarity  

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  • Subsidiarity refers to the way of organizing and distributing rights and responsibilities onto different levels of society and, in this sense, it is an important concept for a global civil society. It is grounded in the belief that a social problem should be solved on the lowest but most effective level of society possible and that the higher levels of society should enable and empower the lower levels to do what they can best. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Subsidiarity]

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