The English question / edited by Robert Hazell.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Hazell, Robert.

Series:

• Devolution series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Home rule--England.
• Decentralization in government--England.
• National characteristics, English.
• Politics and government.
• Decentralization in government.
• Home rule.
• Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.
• Great Britain.
• England.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the US by Palgrave, 2006.

Summary:

• England remains a gaping hole in the devolution settlement. Devolution will not be complete, and the settlement may not be stable, until the English Question has been solved. Does England need to find its own political voice, following devolution to Scotland and Wales? Do the English want an English parliament; regional assemblies in England; or 'English votes on English laws'? Or are the English content to muddle through, with no separate representation or political voice?
• The book includes analysis of the 2004 North East referendum and the feasibility of English votes on English laws. Other chapters give the latest survey findings on English identity and English attitudes to devolution, and place the English regional debate in a European comparative context. This is an important and timely book, written by the leading experts in the field. It will be of interest to policy makers and practitioners dealing with the realities of governing England, and to academics and students of devolution and the English Question.

Contents:

• 1 Introduction: what is the English Question? / Robert Hazell 1
• Part I England in the Union
• 2 England and the Union since 1707 / Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan 24
• 3 The challenges to English identity / Arthur Aughey 45
• 4 The government of England by Westminster / Meg Russell, Guy Lodge 64
• 5 Whitehall and the government of England / Guy Lodge, James Mitchell 96
• 6 What the people say - if anything / John Curtice 119
• Part II The Governance of England
• 7 From functional to political regionalism: England in comparative perspective / Michael Keating 142
• 8 The idea of English regionalism / John Tomaney 158
• 9 Facts on the ground: the growth of institutional answers to the English Question in the regions / Mark Sandford 174
• 10 A very English institution: central and local in the English NHS / Scott L. Greer 194
• 11 Conclusion: what are the answers to the English Question? / Robert Hazell 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-258) and index.

ISBN:

• 0719073685
• 0719073693

OCLC:

62533091

Publisher Number:

• 9780719073687
• 9780719073694