A centralized system refers to an organization or structure where decision-making, control, and power are concentrated in one central authority or entity. Full definition
The Manchester deal - makers have real achievements to their credit, but these do not signal a decentralisation of power or resources; they derive more from the shrewdness with which a small group around Howard Bernstein and Richard Leese (respectively Chief Executive and Leader of Manchester City Council) have played the game of extracting resources from a Treasury that manages what is just about the most centralised system of local authority funding in Western Europe. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
De Vries adds that it was already common knowledge that centralised systems such as TIPS are more efficient than blockchains. (cryptonews.com)
And Liberals argued for local government to have a role in the NHS right from its founding, for fear that a fully centralised system would put too much power in the hands of central government instead of the professionals and the patients. (politics.co.uk)