Insecurity drove new states to keep centralized control rather than federate

Evidence

The newly established states did not feel secure enough to abandon a centralized state apparatus and could not create overnight those small self-administrative bodies of communes and cantons upon whose very extensive powers the Swiss system of federation is based. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2496

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism here parallels the homogenization logic in later Islamophobia readings about how postcolonial states centralize identity against internal difference. — connects to: Early centralized control lets parties shift policy stances more readily — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 704; Industrialization created problems no single state could solve, forcing centralization — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3780