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Central Propaganda Department
The Central Propaganda Department (中共中央宣传部) is the Chinese Communist Party body responsible for propaganda, education, and publication nationwide, formally established in May 1924 and twice dissolved and reestablished since.
Central Provident Fund
The Central Provident Fund is Singapore's compulsory savings scheme, established in 1955, which funds retirement income, healthcare, and housing through employer and employee contributions, holding $609.5 billion for 4.2 million members.
Central Rada
The Central Rada (Українська Центральна рада) was the Ukrainian revolutionary parliament created in Kyiv in March 1917. Led by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, it proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic and was dissolved in April 1918.
Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCR) is El Salvador's central bank, founded in 1934. It no longer issues currency, since the country dollarized in 2001.
Central Reserve Bank of Peru
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, BCRP) is Peru's autonomous central bank, founded in 1922, which targets inflation of 1 to 3 percent.
Central Reserve Police Force
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), India's largest Central Armed Police Force, raised 27 July 1939 as the Crown Representative Police at Neemuch and renamed by the CRPF Act of 28 December 1949; primary internal security force since 2001.
Central Secretariat of Balhae
The Central Secretariat of Balhae, the Jeongdangseong, was the senior of the Balhae kingdom's three government departments, headed by the chief minister, the Daenaesang, until the kingdom fell in 926.
Central Siberian Botanical Garden
Central Siberian Botanical Garden (ЦСБС СО РАН), Novosibirsk, founded 1946 under V.L. Komarov's initiative; largest botanical research institution of Asian Russia, moved to Akademgorodok 1964-1971, herbarium 800,000 sheets, Flora of Siberia.
Central Siberian Yupik language
Central Siberian Yupik (Akuzipik, Yupigestun, Chaplinski, чаплинский язык), ISO 639-3 ess, is an endangered polysynthetic Yupik language of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia, with about 800-900 first-language speakers, Cyrillic and Latin orthographies, and distinctness from Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Central Superior Services
Central Superior Services (CSS) is Pakistan's federal competitive examination run by the FPSC, recruiting officers to twelve occupational groups; a 1,500-mark, 12-14 month cycle shaped by the 1973 reforms and 2026 restructuring plans.
Central Tibetan Administration
Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), also called the Tibetan government-in-exile: exile government established by the 14th Dalai Lama on 29 April 1959 in Mussoorie, based in Dharamshala, India, with executive, legislative, and judicial branches, unrecognized by any sovereign state.
Central University of Ecuador
The Central University of Ecuador (Universidad Central del Ecuador, UCE) is a public university in Quito, Ecuador, whose origins date to 1620 and whose republican foundation came by Simón Bolívar's decree in 1826.
Central Vigilance Commission (केंद्रीय सतर्कता आयोग)
Central Vigilance Commission (केंद्रीय सतर्कता आयोग), India's apex anti-corruption watchdog for the central government: created by 1964 resolution on the Santhanam Committee's recommendation, made statutory by the CVC Act 2003 after Vineet Narain; supervises CBI corruption investigations.
Central Waqf Council
Central Waqf Council: Indian statutory advisory body under the Ministry of Minority Affairs, set up 1964 under the Waqf Act; chaired by the Union Minority Affairs Minister; advises on Waqf Boards and runs waqf development schemes.
Centralisation
Centralisation is the concentration of political power and decision-making in a single central authority, contrasting with decentralisation; it underlies the emergence of chiefdoms and states about 5,000 years ago, European state-building, and modern debates over fiscal, administrative, and federal governance design.
Centralist Republic of Mexico
Centralist Republic of Mexico (República Centralista), 1835–1846 unitary regime replacing the 1824 federal constitution via the Siete Leyes of 1836 and Bases Orgánicas of 1843; states became departments, Texas was lost, and federalism was restored in 1846.
Centre Alliance
Centre Alliance, formerly the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), is an Australian centrist political party registered 1 July 2013, South Australia-based, renamed April 2018; it won three Senate seats and Mayo in 2016 and held one House seat in 2019, with Rebekha Sharkie as registered officer.
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
The Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) is a research center at De Montfort University, Leicester, founded in 1995 to study the ethics of computing.
Centre Lane Partners
Centre Lane Partners is a New York private investment firm, founded in 2007, that invests in the equity and debt of North American middle-market companies.
Centre Party (Finland)
Suomen Keskusta (Centern i Finland), Finland's Centre Party, founded 1906 as the Agrarian League in Seinäjoki; centrist agrarian-rooted party, repeatedly the largest in the Eduskunta, a coalition 'hinge party', reduced to 11.3% and 23 seats in 2023.
Centre Party (Germany)
Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei, Zentrum): German party of political Catholicism founded 1870, pillar of the Weimar coalition, dissolved 1933, refounded 1945, now a small NRW-based party.
Centre Party (Norway)
Senterpartiet (Sp), Norway's Centre Party, founded 1920 as agrarian Bondepartiet, renamed 1959; decentralist, anti-EU/EEA party led by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum; left the Støre government February 2025 and won 5.6% and nine seats in the 2025 election.
Centre Party (Sweden)
The Centre Party (Centerpartiet, C) is Sweden's green, liberal party, founded around 1910 as the farmers' Bondeförbundet, renamed 1957. It peaked at 25.1% in 1973 and took 7.0% and 25 seats in the 2026 election.
Centre Union (Poland)
Centre Union (Polish: Unia Centrum) is a centrist Polish political party founded in 2026 by climate minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska, formed from a breakaway from Polska 2050 and the Union of European Democrats.
Centre-left politics
Centre-left politics: progressive reform within liberal-democratic market capitalism, chiefly social democracy, social liberalism, and Third Way politics; historically built the welfare state, now electorally declining against populism.
Centre-right politics
Centre-right (center-right, right-of-centre) politics: parties and views between the political centre and the right, chiefly conservative and Christian democratic, historically dominant in Western democracies and now contested by radical-right challengers.
CentreBC
CentreBC is a centrist political party in British Columbia, Canada, founded March 28, 2025 by former MLA Karin Kirkpatrick. It ran 25 candidates in the 2026 provincial election under leader Elenore Sturko after successive leaders Mike Bernier and Peter Milobar.
Centrelink
Centrelink is the Australian Government's service delivery arm for social security, created in 1997 and since 2019 a brand of Services Australia, delivering payments for policy departments.
Centrexion Therapeutics Corp
Centrexion Therapeutics Corp is a Boston-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013 that develops non-opioid, non-addictive therapies for chronic pain, led by former Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler.
Centrism
Centrism: political positioning at or beyond the middle of the left–right spectrum, also called the centre ground. Covers etymology (French centriste, 1872), Bobbio's centres, valence disadvantages of centrist parties like the FDP and Liberal Democrats, and Macron's oscillating centrism.