For opposition parties observing the mess, decentralisation is an appealing (if hardly catchy) solution.
The decentralisation of American education also makes it impossible to introduce national testing standards.
But there is no doubt that Spanish decentralisation has, with minimal post-Franco coercion, kept the country together.
On December 15th David Cameron, the Conservative leader, invited them to co-operate with his party on decentralisation.
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Decentralisation has brought waste and corruption in some places, but in others it has produced better urban management.
Supporters of decentralisation argue that corruption is more likely to be detected when it happens close to home.
It was about political organisation dictatorship versus decentralisation or democracy as well as the choice between command economics and the market.
Decentralisation was a move away from the consultation economy and towards the market.
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The most important remaining one deals with decentralisation to the regions and provinces.
The government's ability to carry out economic reforms is also compromised by decentralisation.
More broadly, the English should welcome a decentralisation of power that may help to invigorate peripheral parts of Britain.
He also wants decentralisation: local government currently spends only 4% of the budget.
We need clarity of purpose, decentralisation of authority and improved management of people.
Its candidate, an energetic entrepreneur and community activist called Adolf D'Souza, campaigns for decentralisation, transparent online budgeting and public accountability.
Shadow fisheries minister Fiona O'Donnell said Labour supported "genuine decentralisation of powers away from Brussels... towards a system of regionalised management".
In France, the government is committed to decentralisation, but its devolution plan for Corsica was messily rejected in a recent referendum.
Also at the event will be the decentralisation minister Greg Clark and Simon Towler, from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Mr Griffin said there were benefits to decentralisation, including the reduction of the department's carbon footprint, and less traffic on the roads.
The push for decentralisation in Russia, which Mr Rossel exemplifies, is startling.
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But decentralisation, deregulation and a huge infrastructure boom have boosted demand for power, and China's economy is now becoming more, not less, energy-intensive.
NIPSA's Assistant General Secretary, Kieran Bannon, said the union was not against decentralisation, it just wanted clarification as to why Ballykelly was chosen.
Plaid Cymru has not called for the capital's move from London to Liverpool, but a party spokeswoman said decentralisation was central to its plans.
That is one reason for believing that Italy's experiment with decentralisation could yet acquire a momentum that few but the Northern League would welcome.
More decentralisation of power from Westminster to the regions of England.
In other cases, decentralisation seems to be working rather too well.
The plan proposed by Mr Vande Lanotte would see a further decentralisation of power to Belgium's regions, split between the Dutch-speaking Flemish population and French-speaking Walloons.
Kurdish nationalists know that progress towards decentralisation their minimum political goal is dependent on the approval of Iran's "Supreme Leader", who is cooler towards minorities than the president.
"At a time when the assembly in the north is promoting decentralisation of governmental departments to generate regional prosperity this would be a backward step, " he said.
Should Messrs Kawamura and Omura manage to stuff the new assemblies with their supporters in the spring elections, they could help unleash forces of decentralisation in Japan.
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Campaigning under the slogan " A better Ghana", he lists economic growth, better energy supplies, improved access to education and political decentralisation as being among his priorities.
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