Unitary states honestly seem worse in every way to Federal states unless somebody would like to convince me otherwise?

For some strange reason, most of the democracies in the world tend to be Unitary states, so there has to be something right about them over Federal states.

And for those of you who don't know, Unitary states are countries whose national Government makes all binding decisions. So countries like Greece, UK, and France are examples of Unitary states. While Federal states are countries who have both regional and national Governments who each have a set amount of power in making binding decisions. Countries like the US, Canada, and Germany are examples of Federal states.

I can't really see any unless you're operating a country that is extremely small geographically. Centralization is not good.

I dunno. It could be more effective in countries with significant ethnic tensions, since making a country with ethnic tensions would likely further divide the ethnic groups in conflict.

Unitary systems are good for small and relatively homogenous countries; federalism in the United Kingdom probably wouldn't be a good idea. Devolution has caused enough issues all by itself.

When it comes to large countries like Russia, or culturally/ethno-linguistically diverse countries like Switzerland, then federalism tends to be better. For the US specifically, federalism is definitely better and its a shame Obama is content to shit all over it.

But how is Obama shitting on the USA's federalization?

I'll reply to this tomorrow.

Quote from: Not Comms Officer on May 03, 2015, 03:10:55 AM

Quote from: King pesto on May 03, 2015, 02:44:34 AM

I can't really see any unless you're operating a country that is extremely small geographically. Centralization is not good.

I dunno. It could be more effective in countries with significant ethnic tensions, since making a country with ethnic tensions would likely further divide the ethnic groups in conflict.

Ideally your country shouldn't have ethnic conflict in the first place. If you've got two groups divided along ethnic AND geographic lines, is it really better to have them compete for their opposing interests within a central government, rather than letting them handle their own issues by themselves?

If you give them their own powers in a state of ethnic tension, they're just gonna use it to try to one-up eachother. And one side will cry foul once they get the "short end of the stick" despite them only making up 25% of the population.