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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They have launched a critique of government that laments its centralisation, not just its size.
Centralisation, government targets and a focus on exams have made state schools less customer-friendly and more boring.
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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Mr Putin's centralisation of power has made Russia more autocratic but it has not made it better governed.
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.
She faces regional divisions that make centralisation of power hard in Ukraine.
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.
Mr Brogan is cooler towards the darker, more generalised second volume of 1840, where Tocquevillian abstractions individualism and centralisation do battle against civic mores for the soul of modern society.
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.
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