It has a central administration with extensive regional devolution.
Such regional devolution is well known and topical in the United Kingdom at the present day.
True regional devolution no longer exists.
For over half a century, Northern Ireland enjoyed true regional devolution.
Further proposals for unitary authorities in northern England, tied to the option of regional devolution, were put to a referendum in 2004 and were rejected.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister of the time, admitted that his plans for regional devolution had suffered an "emphatic defeat".
This advocated regional devolution within an independent, post-colonial England.
With a few exceptions, any "nationalism" in Western Europe takes the form of peaceful regional devolution of power within federal or unitary state institutions.
The third area of international conformity is the issue of constitutional reform - proportional representation, regional devolution, and the depreciation of the monarchy.
Legitimation for such delegated enforcement was usually sought through schemes for participation, such as industrial democracy, regional devolution or community action.