hierarchicalism

English

Etymology

hierarchical +‎ -ism

Noun

hierarchicalism (uncountable)

1. The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
   • 2000, Colin D. Standish, Organizational Structure and Apostasy, page 18:

     As we have explored the organizational development of the church, it has become evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism.

   • 2009 August 2, Lawrence Downes, “Desert Odyssey”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own continuance in bright-colored globules of coherence irrelevant to, hence safe from, the scrutiny of American capitalists.”