I don't have a book or series to exemplify the Points of Light setting, but here's one that mangled the idea of Points of Light: The Wheel of Time series. Those books not only had every scrap of land from the coast to the edge of the Blight divided into a specific kingdom, and every nation's monarch seemed to have complete authority over the entire territory, and could reach anywhere on the continent with his or her network of minions. Fun for politics, bad for PoL.
On the other hand, you could see a certain Points of Light in the uncertainty of it all. Kingdoms and cities are pretty civilized, but they aren't safe. Everywhere you go people are secretly Darkfriends or Forsaken or just scheming against you. So, really there are very few safe places in the world.
But I still wouldn't call it Points of Light.