| Will decentralization really bring politics closer to the people, or will we be returning to a bunch of little bailiwicks? |
| People's priorities thus remain largely unarticulated in the absence of a decentralization process. |
| It emphasizes democracy, decentralization, and the sovereignty of individual cantons, which give much autonomy to individual communities. |
| We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture. |
| Questions of federalism and decentralization have dominated public debate across the country. |
| If not handled carefully, this decentralization may pose as much a threat to national unity as armed separatist movements. |
