Bureaucratic centralism arises from political passivity at the periphery, not just top-down control.

Evidence

In any case, it needs to be stressed that the unhealthy manifestations of bureaucratic centralism occurred because of a lack of initiative and responsibility at the bottom, in other words because of the political immaturity of the peripheral forces, even when these were homogeneous with the hegemonic territorial group (phenomenon of Piedmontism 240 in the first decades of Italian unity). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 778

Categorization

• QUESTION: Piedmontism — the tendency of a peripheral majority to passively accept the leading region’s rule — is a mechanism worth chasing into how subaltern passivity undergirds dominant-group hegemony.