The black churches do OK with very lean national structures. (religion-online.org)
It may not presently have an effective national structure to support local organizing, but there is a base of organizers and activists that have kept the party going across the country. (platypus1917.org)
Unfortunately, while people and systems have become more integrated, increasingly making national boundaries almost irrelevant, politicians and governance systems are locked into fossilized national structures which have failed to keep pace with global developments. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)