The State of the Nations: The Third Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom (State of the Nations Yearbooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907845495 ISBN 13: 9780907845492

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2003

Synopsis

The State of the Nations 2003 is the third publication of a major research programme into devolution in the United Kingdom, published on behalf of the Constitution Unit at University College London.

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Review

"I am quite confident that this series will continue to demonstrate that devolution is anything but boring... given its pioneering remit, its large-scale operation and its methodological approach, this research programme truly represents the Ordnance Survey of devolution."

Author: Klaus Stolz Source: Regional and Federal Studies

"The developing nature of devolution means that the monographs published during the early years of the process were unable to analyse the 'efficient' operation of the devolution process and thus they present a one-dimensional view of the UK's devolved constitutional structure. The State of the Nations series, in providing an ongoing and post-facto analysis of the devolution process, has the advantage of 20/20 hindsight... It should be a first port of call for those interested in devolution in the UK."

Author: John Hopkins Source: European Public Law

"An indispensable reference book on devolution in the UK, but also an attempt at an evaluation of the first five years."

Author: Barry Winetrobe Source: BJPIR

"A compelling analysis of the opportunities and pitfalls of evolving inter-governmentalism in the UK."

Author: Barry Jones Source: Political Studies Review

"This volume makes an important contribution to developing understanding of a political process with numerous and profound implications for the lives of people in the UK. Long live the Constitution Unit!"

Author: Roger Scully Source: Representation

"Furnished with tables and chronologies, it provides a convenient source of reference on devolution as well as serving as an up-to-date analysis of how devolution is developing."

Source: Parliamentary Affairs

"The Constitution Unit has already won itself a well-deserved reputation for independent, non-partisan judgments on constitutional developments. The State and the Nations, the first of an annual series of yearbooks on devolution, will add to its reputation. It will prove an invaluable volume of record for all serious students of the changing United Kingdom."

Author: Vernon Bogdanor

"Once again the Constitution Unit has shown itself to be the country's leading constitutional cartographer. Mapping the first months and years of the new constitutional settlement is both brave and demanding, but the Unit’s team has pulled it off magnificently."

Author: Peter Hennessy

"The Constitution Unit has done its usual thorough job not just in showing how devolution is working in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but also in highlighting the far-reaching implications for the whole of the UK, and, particularly for Whitehall and Westminster. London based politicians and journalists will learn a lot about how central government and Parliament might be improved."

Author: Peter Riddell

"The State and the Nations is part of a considered and authoritative long term academic study of the constitutional reform of this country."

Author: John Reid Source: The Scotsman

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List of Contributors
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John Curtice is Professor of Politics and Director of the Social Statistics Laboratory at Strathclyde University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends.

Oonagh Gay is currently on secondment to the Constitution Unit from the House of Commons Library, where she is a specialist in constitutional affairs. She is responsible for the Unit's project on Devolution at Westminster, funded by Leverhulme.

Scott Greer is Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, UCL, and lead researcher on the Devolution and Health project.

Robert Hazell is the Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor of Government and the Constitution in the School of Public Policy, University College London. Originally a barrister, he spent most of his working life at the Home Office. He left Whitehall to become director of the Nuffield Foundation and founded the Constitution Unit in 1995. He is the director of a five year research programme into the Dynamics of Devolution, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Peter Hetherington is The Guardian's Regional Affairs Editor and chairs the Commission on Local Governance, which recently suggested a raft of measures to revive local democracy and put town and county halls on a sounder constitutional footing.

Dan Hough is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham.

Charlie Jeffery is Director of the ESRC’s Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme and Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham.

James Mitchell is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University and heads the Scottish Monitoring team. He is the author of numerous book and articles on Scottish and UK politics and devolution.

John Osmond is Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, a policy think tank based in Cardiff. He is a former political journalist and television producer and has written widely on Welsh politics and devolution.

Rachel Simeon is a Senior Policy Analyst with the government of Ontario, Canada, specialising in intergovernmental social policy. She recently completed a master’s degree in public policy at University College London.

John Tomaney works in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. His research interests include the political economy of regional development and the politics of devolution in England.

Alan Trench is a Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, working on issues of devolution and intergovernmental relations in the United Kingdom. A solicitor by profession, he has been specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution for their inquiry into Devolution: Inter-Institutional Relations in the United Kingdom.

Rick Wilford is a Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively on both devolution and politics in Northern Ireland.

Robin Wilson is Director of the Belfast-based think tank Democratic Dialogue, co-leader with Professor Rick Wilford of the Northern Ireland devolution monitoring project team and an honorary senior research fellow of the Constitution Unit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907845495
• ISBN 13: 9780907845492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Hazell Robert