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Devolution and British politics /
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxon, OX :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.