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State and nation in the united kingdom : the fractured union / Michael Keating.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keating, Michael, 1950 May 2- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which they key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.
- Contents:
- Cover
- State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Chapter 1: Nation States and Political Unions
- States and Unions
- Differentiated Polities
- Modernization and the Demise of Union
- The Union Principle
- Sovereignty and Post-Sovereignty
- Constitutional Formulas
- The Stability of Unions
- Chapter 2: Union and its Challengers in the United Kingdom
- Interpreting the United Kingdom
- The Old Regime
- Towards Union
- Legacy of Unions
- Modernization and the Nationalist Challenge
- Territorial Management in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 3: The Millennium Settlement
- The Return of the National Question
- Towards Devolution
- Devolution Design
- Dynamic Effects
- The Open Constitution
- Chapter 4: The Sovereignty Conundrum
- Parliamentary Sovereignty
- Conceding Sovereignty
- Squaring the Circle
- Interpreting the Constitution
- Law, Politics and Constitutionalism
- Chapter 5: Union at the Centre
- Self-Ruleand Shared Rule
- Linking the Levels
- Reforming the Centre
- The Emergence of England
- Balancing the Union
- Chapter 6: Between Two Unions
- Europe as a Union
- Reconciling the Two Unions
- Human and Citizen Rights
- Brexit
- Disintegration
- Recentralization
- Reconfiguration
- Chapter 7: Union and Unionisms in the United Kingdom
- Nationalism and Unionism
- Integration
- The Patriot Tradition
- Contractualism
- The Home Rule Tradition
- Neo-Unionism
- The Crisis of Unionism
- Chapter 8: Economic Union
- The Principle of Economic Union
- The United Kingdom as an Economic Union
- Economic Union in the Twentieth Century
- The Internal Market
- The Disconnected Union
- Rebalancing Economic Union?
- Chapter 9: Social Union
- Defining the Social Union
- Taxing and Spending.
- Winners and Losers
- The Politics of Barnett
- The Welfare State
- Public Services
- A Sharing Union?
- Chapter 10: The Public and the Union
- Constituting the Nation
- Measuring Identity and Constitutional Preferences
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- England
- The Sharing Union
- The Foundations of Union
- Chapter 11: The Future of Union
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-257833-2
- 0-19-187685-2
- 0-19-257832-4
- OCLC:
- 1244625690
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