Devolution in the United Kingdom
by Vernon Bogdanor
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The issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis. This book places recent developments in the United Kingdom in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone's espousal of Home Rule in 1886right up to the 1998 legislation governing the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.As well as considering what devolution will mean for Scotland and Wales, and how it will work in practice, Vernon show more Bogdanor discusses parallels with earlier devolution debates, giving special attention to the issue of Irish Home Rule which dominated British politics from 1886 to 1914. He alsoexamines the experience of devolution in Northern Ireland and analyses the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, as well as considering the impact and implications of the new arrangements for the government of London under the Mayoral system implemented in May 2000.Devolution in the United Kingdom cuts across the boundaries of disciplines such as history, political science, and law, and will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the significance of the most important constitutional development of our time. show lessTags
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Vernon Bogdanor was, until 2010, Professor of Government at Oxford University. He is now a Research Professor at King's College, London, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.94109 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political situation and conditions Europe British Isles Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography
- LCC
- JN329 .D43 .B65 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (Europe) Political institutions and public administration (Europe) Great Britain
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- English
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