Devolution and British Politics.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Neill, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decentralization in government--Great Britain.

Decentralization in government.

Regionalism--Great Britain.

Regionalism.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Devolution and British Politics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The idea of the union state; Devolution: an overview; Notes; Part One A Kingdom United; 1 State building and national integration in Britain; Foundations; Constituents; Notes; 2 Challenging the centre: home rule movements; Territorial residues; Paths to home rule; Notes; Part Two Re-Imagining Britain: The Politics of Identity; 3 Politicising territorial identity: theorems of change; Stirrings; The 1980s watershed and beyond

Notes4 The politics of identity: Scottish nationalism; Introduction; The SNP and nationalism; National identity and the SNP; The left-right spectrum; A profile of SNP support; Independence in Europe; Future prospects; Notes; 5 The politics of identity: Wales; Introduction; Cognitive order, territorial communities, nationalist discourses and the behaviour of elite stakeholders; Territorial communities, cognitive orders and the politics of identity in post-devolution Wales; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Northern Ireland: resolving an ancient quarrel?; Introduction; Faltering implementation

Assessing devolutionConclusion; Notes; Part Three Reforming the British State; 7 Reforming the British state: the 1998 watershed; Devolution revisited; Legitimising constitutional reform; The Scotland and Wales Acts 1998; Northern Ireland: resolving an ancient quarrel?; Notes; 8 Intra-party relationships of British state-wide political parties within the developing territorial agenda; Introduction; Changing state-wide Labour Party organisation; Changing Conservative and Liberal Democrat state-wide party organisation; The disciplines of the 'new politics'

Changing party organisation in Scotland: the Clark modelWestminster: a continuing role in Scottish Labour politics; Scottish Tories; Scottish Liberal Democrats; The state-wide parties in Wales; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Central government and devolution; Introduction; New structures and procedures; Devolution and the civil service; The view from Whitehall; Conclusions; Notes; 10 English regional government; Introduction; The economics of regional government; Regional government and regional governance; Democracy and the strategic level; Conclusion; Notes

11 The impact of European integrationIntroduction; A classic unitary state?; UK devolution and the European Union; Multi-level governance and the policy process; UK devolution and the EU's structural funds; Moving forward: the EU, interdependence and UK devolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part Four Reflecting on Constitutional Change; 12 The new institutions: an interim assessment; Introduction; Performance; Public opinion; New politics?; Wales, England and Northern Ireland; Institutional deficiencies; Inherent instability or settlement?; Devolution and Europe; Notes

13 The United Kingdom as a post-sovereign polity

Notes:

"First published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 11, 2014).

ISBN:

1-317-87364-5

1-315-83736-6

1-317-87365-3

1-281-77115-5

9786611771157

1-4082-1285-4

9781315837369

OCLC:

897462835