Devolution
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A rolling down. A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another. Degeneration (as opposed to evolution). The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign government to local government; eg. from Westminster to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
Degeneration
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.The thing degenerated.