State of the Nations 2008电子书

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Publisher information

List of Contributors

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Foreword, Alan Trench

Body matter

1. Introduction: The Second Phase of Devolution, Alan Trench

2007: The Year When Chickens Started Coming Home to Roost

Devolution, the Second Phase

Conclusion

2. Scotland: The Nationalist Phoenix, Peter Jones

The Second Four Years

Non-Legislative Executive Action

A New Stage and Unseemly Noises Off

Changes of Leader

More Powers?

Labour’s Unionist Drum Beat

Time for Change in the SNP

The Conservatives Come in from the Cold

Liberal Dems, Greens and Reds Struggle

Shambles at the Count

The Constitutional Debate: A Conversation and a Commission

Conclusion

3. Welsh Devolution: The End of the Beginning, and the Beginning of...? Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully

The Richard Commission and the Labour Party

The Government of Wales Act 2006: From White Paper to Royal Assent

The 2007 Assembly Election

The Consequences of the 2007 Election

Public Attitudes in Wales

Conclusion

4. Northern Ireland: Devolution Once Again, Rick Wilford and Robin Wilson

Introduction

The Path to St Andrews (Summer 2005 - October 2006)

The Agreement at St Andrews (October 2006)

The Transitional Assembly

The Assembly Election

The Blair Effect

Conclusion: Divided They Stand

5. The English Regions and London, Martin Burch, Alan Harding and James Rees

The Exaggerated Death of English Regionalism

Regional Development - The Institutional Strand

Regional Development - The Economic Policy Strand

Judging the Outcomes? Growth, Spending and Spatial Investment

Conclusion

6. Financing Devolution: 2008 and Beyond, John Aldridge

Needs-Based Budgeting

Revenue-Based Budgeting and the Debate About Fiscal Autonomy

Fiscal Autonomy and the GERS Debate

Equity and Accountability: Having Our Cake and Eating It?

The Barnett Formula As a Third Way

Barnett and Convergence

Moving Beyond Barnett: What Might a Wise Treasury Want?

7. Policy Styles and Devolution, Scott L. Greer and Holly Jarman

Policy Styles in Devolution

Devolution’s Ancestors: The Historical Roots of Policy Styles

England: Markets and Managerialism

Scotland: Professionalism and Consistency

Conclusion: The Future

8. Lost Souls in the Lobbies? Backbenchers from Scotland and Wales in Post-Devolution Westminster, Akash Paun

The Workload of MPS: Testing the Underemployment Hypothesis

W(h)ither the Territorial Legislative Spheres at Westminster?

Parliamentary Questions and MPs’ Policy Interests

Conclusions and Future Prospects

9. The Practice of Multi-Level Government: How Intergovernmental Relations Work in Federal Systems, Alan Trench

Introduction: The Challenges of Workable Systems of Intergovernmental Relations

Actors

Issues

Processes and Instruments

Conclusion: Lessons for the United Kingdom from Federal Systems?

10. Ever Looser Union, James Mitchell

Introduction

Who are the SNP?

Intergovernmental Relations

The Evolution of Devolution

The SNP’s Independence White Paper

The Problem of Sovereignty

The Unfinished Business of Devolution

Conclusion

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