Fort Ancient settlements lacked Mississippian traits such as political centralization and elite social structures.

Kolathunad was not consolidated well and lacked a degree of political centralization like the rest of feudal states in Malabar.

Consistent with this lack of political centralization, the Nairs of North Malabar were not divided into sects based on administrative and occupational functions.

Overall, there appears to be a negative correlation between the degree of political centralization and the number of ballcourts at a site.

The CPP pursued a policy of political centralization, which encountered serious opposition.

This may be in part because political centralization has not yet been achieved, so standard Khmer does not prevail throughout Cambodia.

The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.

She sees political centralization as a consequence of revolution.

The Political Cesspool describes its philosophy as "pro-White" and "against political centralization".

During this era, the political centralization of the earlier Tibetan Empire collapsed.