Governing Scotland: The Invention of Administrative Devolution - Softcover

Mitchell, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349410128 ISBN 13: 9781349410125

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasised the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.

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About the Author

JAMES MITCHELL is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was previously Chair in Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Conservatives and the Union, Strategies for Self-Government and co-author of Politics and Public Policy in Scotland, How Scotland Votes and Scotland Decides: The Devolution Referendum.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349410128
• ISBN 13: 9781349410125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271