The centralised approach doesn't work: Reynolds, who has previously worked as an MEP liaison officer at 10 Downing Street, argued that centralised decision making over public services is an inefficient and "fundamentally flawed" approach.
Amid calls for longer term economic planning and centralised decision making on distributing European Union grants, it is hard to see where the reality of election cycles and shifting political winds fit in.
Ubiquity of electronic patient information informed clinical decision making through a centralised patient database which sourced all hospitals in an Area.
Mr President, this report highlights the issue of whether it is acceptable for centralised decision-making in Brussels to have an impact on people's lives on an everyday basis.
Local decisions prevent overload of centralised decision-making, and local decision-makers may also have a better grasp of affected preferences and alternatives, making for better service than would be provided by a central government that tends to ignore local preference variations (Smith 1776, 680).
It said businesses also suffered from centralised decision-making over lending that ignored local needs.
Likewise, the slow pace of oil exploration has allowed technical expertise to be built, though there are risks that centralised decision-making will marginalise it.
Despite having a single set of institutions, a centralised decision-making process, and an essentially homogeneous ruling class, the Japanese government is unable to act in response to the manifest challenges which confront it.
The UK communications minister, Ed Vaizey, played right into Icann's pocket: "Just imagine an internet that relied on governments agreeing on things," he said, suggesting that the result would be "top-down, centralised decision-making: a bureaucratic worldwide web of red tape.
He said reforms in Portugal have attempted to release schools from a mindset where everything depended on centralised decision-making.
"They all support an agenda that is remarkably similar: privately managed charter schools; high-stakes testing; evaluating teachers by the test scores of their students; top-down, centralised decision-making by the federal government, the state government or the mayor; disregard for teacher experience or credentials or degrees".
