Canada

Some of the most insidious forms of decentralization have occurred at the level of politics. Provincial governments routinely engage in buck-passing and blame avoidance, attempts to pin responsibility on the federal government for matters under their own jurisdiction.

This is a significant problem but it won't be solved by centralization. People in any organization, public, private, engage in shifting the blame on fuckups. It doesn't matter where the real responsibility lies, as long as the audience buys the blame.