Launching the devolution decade? Labour and devolution to Scotland and WalesIn March 1998 the Welsh Office launched a Green Paper on 'Local Democracy and Community Leadership'. After an extensive consultation period a White Paper (July 1998) was issued which appeared to leave the door open for ...
RON DAVIES is famous for the "moment of madness" with a Rastafarian on Clapham Common that terminated his tenure as Secretary of State for Wales. He is less well known for his more recent moments of sanity about the nature of home rule. One of these moments emerges in the foreword to ...
The second judgement on devolution concerns the use voters have made in Scotland and Wales of the opportunity to vote in different ways for different reasons than in Westminster elections. In Northern Ireland this pattern of differential voting is absent, as fundamental constitutional and security ...
Devolution and Power in the United Kingdom is concerned with a paradox - why devolution has enabled different approaches to government and policy-making to develop in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 1999, while a close examination of the structure of devolution suggests that the UK gove...
The United Kingdom is an example of devolution because England has given some powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who are the other countries in the United Kingdom. England has still not granted the countries all the powers they have asked for.Devolution...
The United Kingdom has four component parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England had achieved unity by the time of the Saxon kings. In 1536, under the’ Welsh Tudor dynasty, Wales, having been annexed by conquest about 1300, was united
but the proportion did not exceed the two-fifths of the electorate required for passage). During the 1980s and ’90s, however, support for devolution increased in both countries, particularly because, despite the fact that voters in both Scotland and Wales elected Labour candidates to the House...
Thirdly, the SF12 encompasses self-rated health, the other subjective measure used within recent literature on decentralization (Martinussen and Rydland, 2021). 2. Background Although devolution of powers had been granted to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland within the UK, England (a ...
The Conservative party opposed devolution in Scotland and Wales, and was on the losing side in the referendums that created it. The party has always accepted the result, did not try to delay or derail devolution going through and has faithfully pursued it ever since. If we revisit the argume...
This book provides an introduction to the major changes in the political landscape of the UK caused by the political devolution of power to London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is extensive examination of the historical background to these changes with an even more detailed focus ...