Parties wary of a centralisation of power in Brussels have performed well in the polls.
Mr Scott said his argument against centralisation extended across Scottish islands and rural areas.
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Expect considerable discussion of the issues around autonomy, centralisation, governance and collaboration in the English school system.
In today's India, centralisation no longer works as political power has devolved to regional leaders and parties.
The effect of reducing the number of health authorities could be to increase rather than reduce centralisation.
Opponents of greater centralisation of funding say it would further alienate head teachers and reduce local accountability.
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By contrast, groups that favour closer union and greater centralisation are generously funded.
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Welsh Liberal Democrat shadow education minister Jenny Randerson said she feared the restructure was about centralisation rather than democratisation.
Concerns were raised by Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott about evidence for the centralisation of Scotland's police forces.
Ms Wood also called on him to "oppose centralisation that puts lives at risk, especially in adverse weather conditions".
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Ministers insist centralisation is needed to ensure hospitals meet new standards for cleanliness.
The Health and Social Services Department said the development would allow the centralisation of mental health facilities in purpose-built facilities.
In countries where schools mainly seek to teach pupils to read, write and grasp some basic maths, centralisation seems to work.
Mr Prescott, however, thinks that this means further centralisation and reckons that he is winning arguments in the cabinet against this move.
Purists define peer-to-peer as an architecture devoid of any form of centralisation.
The review not surprisingly recommended centralisation of many specialist services away from local hospitals to deliver more efficient and safer care for patients.
Mr Gandhi railed against the "gross" centralisation of political power by the elites, and the lack of meritocracy in politics and public systems.
An end to the community warden service and the centralisation of services for young people with emotional and behavioural needs were among the plans.
He said Mr Attwood would have a "tough job" to persuade the government to change their centralisation plans, as they seemed committed to them.
But, more seriously, the coming of the euro is part of a process involving the centralisation of economic power and decision-making in pan-European bodies.
The Roman Catholic church has long been a byword for conformism, but bishops complain privately that the degree of centralisation has increased during his reign.
Defenders of the Treasury's new role argue that it forms part of a much needed revamp of government, and represents a masterly mix of centralisation and decentralisation.
Of course, for the majority of his time in power the prime minister presided over the greatest centralisation of power in our public services since the Attlee government.
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Can it really break the culture of centralisation in Whitehall?
And it should not be forgotten that much of the centralisation under the Tories was a direct response to the failures of local government in the post-war years.
So it's not just a matter of a new centralisation of power in the Town Hall or the County Hall, it's also about involving people on local issues.
By contrast, most Bosnian Muslims (or Bosnjaks) would like to see greater centralisation within Bosnia but the Bosnian Serbs, who are backed by Mr Kostunica, are opposed to that.
Mr Prescott's bruising experience has taught him a hard lesson: that pre-election de-centralisation rhetoric does not impress battle-hardened Whitehall mandarins, who instinctively resist any attempt to encroach on their territory.
And he gave a frank assessment of where New Labour had gone wrong in its early days in government under Mr Blair, when it saw public service reform in terms of "centralisation rather than decentralisation".
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