The leaders of South Asia could meet in a grand conference to manage the orderly redrawing of borders as well as the establishment of new federal structures of governance across the subcontinent, but there is little prospect of such an endeavor, hence the changes — when they come — are likely to be chaotic and messy. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
A further reason for the decline in royal power, and one that was not predicted at the time, was the shift of the United Kingdom to a formal federal structure in the middle part of the century. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
And in the party system, there is growing talk of a more federal structure for those political parties that operate across Britain. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)