Administrative decentralization is the technical side of democratization.
Two examples are decentralization in the structure of public administration, and decentralization in provision of local services, which seems to be more complicated. Some type of integration is necessary for 'real' administrative decentralization, the purpose of which is to get closer to democratization. However, fragmentation is not a synonym of decentralization. According to my hypothesis the more decentralized a system the more necessary it is to integrate its basic units. There are different forms of integration.