Author : Alex Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351727850
This title was first published in 2000. Linking politics with culture and society, this collection provides an overview of the Scottish Parliament and analyzes it in relation to UK, European and global regionalization.
Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030022307
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open access book explores, for the first time, why each set their goal as improving wellbeing and how they balance the core elements of societal wellbeing (economic, social and environmental outcomes). Do the frameworks represent a genuine attempt to think differently about how devolved government can plan and organise public services? And if so, what early indications are there of the impact is this having on people’s lives?
Author : Great Britain: Scotland Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780101855426
The UK Government is undertaking a major cross-government programme of analysis prior to the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014. The aim is to provide a comprehensive and detailed analysis of Scotland's place in the UK. This paper, the first of a series to be published in 2013 and 2014, examines the UK's constitutional set-up and the legal implications of independence. The UK Government is convinced that the current devolution offers the best for Scotland: the Scottish Parliament and Government are empowered to take decisions on a range of domestic policy areas - such as health, education, policing - while Scotland continues to benefit from decisions made for the UK as a whole - defence and security, foreign representation, economic affairs. Independence is very different to devolution. Based on independent expert opinion (published as Annex A), the paper concludes that if there were to be a vote in favour of leaving the UK, Scotland would become an entirely new state whilst the remainder of the UK would continue as before, retaining the rights and obligations of the UK as it currently stands. Any separation would have to be negotiated between both governments. Legal and practical implications of independence, both at home and abroad, are addressed. An independent Scotland would have to apply to and/or negotiate to become a member of whichever international organisations it wished to join, including the EU and NATO. Scotland would also have to work through its positions on thousands of international treaties to which the UK is currently party.
Author : Paul Cairney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845402020
It outlines the relative effect of each government on Scottish politics and public policy in various contexts, including: high expectations for 'new politics' that were never fully realised; the influence of, and reactions from, the media and public; the role of political parties; the Scottish Government's relations with the UK Government, ELI institutions, local government, quasi-governmental and non-governmental actors; and, the finance available to fund policy initiatives. It then considers how far Scotland has travelled on the road to constitutional change, comparing the original devolved framework with-calls for independence or a new devolution settlement.
Author : Robert Hazell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780719073694
This work asks whether England needs to find its own political voice, following devolution to Scotland and Wales. It explains the different formulations of the 'English question', and sets the answers in a historical and constitutional context.
Author : Tam Dalyell
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857908901
In September 2014, with the Scottish independence referendum, the United Kingdom came close to being broken apart after three centuries of one of the most successful political unions in history. Yet despite a conclusive No vote, the SNP took almost every seat in Scotland at the 2015 general election, and won a second majority at the Scottish parliamentary election of 2016. Tam Dalyell has been one of the key players in the debate about Devolution since 1962, when he was first elected MP for West Lothian. In this book he recounts his personal involvement with the issue, both during his parliamentary career and after, highlighting how both Labour and Conservative administrations have approached the question of devolved power for Scotland and ultimately failed to stem the Nationalist tide.
Author : Yash Ghai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107018587
An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.
Author : Vernon Bogdanor
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192801287
This book places the recent developments in devolution in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone in 1886 through to the latest developments in the year 2000.
Author : D. Birrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230389791
Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.
Author : Jonathan Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136034889
This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties. They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined and accentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.
