Devolution
Territorial inequalities under devolution: do Scottish and Welsh residents perceive a gap between capital cities and their local communities?
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Devolved institutions risk (re-)creating new (real or perceived) gaps at lower territorial levels.
Scotland Can
Author / Creator: Our Scottish Future
Media type: Website
Date published:
A devolutionist website with interesting articles.
Scotland Can
Author / Creator: We Can
Media type: Website
Date published: 2024 -
If Scotland wants to carry out radical land reform, build a new health system, change the school starting age, create new welfare benefits, or get working on dozens of other issues, then there is nothing to stop us.
Devolution and the Labour Myth
Author / Creator: James Wilkie
Media type: Article
Date published: 2012
Establishment hostility [to devolution] reached its sordid peak with the orgy of corruption that was the 1979 referendum.
A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy
Author / Creator: Commission for the UK’s Future
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The Labour Party's Commission for the UK’s Future has little more than additional consultation on some matters.
Some constitutional cogitations from Cardiff
Author / Creator: Ciaran Martin
Media type: Lecture
Date published: 2022
Reform of the UK in the light of Anglo-centric British nationalism.
Can muscular unionism save the Union?
Author / Creator: Iain McLean
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not.
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
Brexit removed the external support for Devolution. The territorial tensions are made worse by the fact that majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland opposed it. There have been three responses: United Kingdom as a unitary state; to fragment into its nations; and to seek a Brexit with exceptions. Only Northern Ireland has been granted n exceptions.
The Smith Commission Report - Overview
Author / Creator: Scottish Parliament Information Centre
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
Smith Commission report is analysed by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission
Author / Creator: Scottish Liberal Democrats
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The 2014 Scottish Liberal Democrats proposal for a Federal UK
Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement
Author / Creator: UK Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
The UK Government response to the Smith Commission
The Smith Commission; COSLA Convention Item 3
Author / Creator: COSLA
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The COSLA review of the implications of the Smith Commission report for local government.
Report of the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament
Author / Creator: Smith Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
Text of the Smith Commission report
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.
Worth the wait? Reforming Intergovernmental Relations
Author / Creator: Nicola McEwen
Media type: Article
Date published:
Intergovernmental relations (IGR) have long been the weak link in the UK’s system of devolution. Overall, the reforms carry the potential for significant improvements to the system.
Brexit and Beyond: the union
Author / Creator: UK in a Changing Europe
Media type: Report
Date published: February 2021
What happens to powers that were formerly exercised at the EU level, but which fall within devolved competence, has been a recurrent source of disagreement between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.
The dilemma of devolution – more powers but potentially worse off
Author / Creator: Richard Parry
Media type: Article
Date published:
Increments [of devolved powers]...expose yet more anomalies and disadvantages to Scotland that only the full powers of independence would resolve.
Devolution
Author / Creator: Malcolm Harvey
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Devolution has caused a de facto decentralisation of the UK, although such arrangements as the Sewel Convention can be over turned by the Westminster government.
Twin Tracks: Cultural and Political Nationalism after 1967
Author / Creator: Scott Hames
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The idea of Devolution arriving on a wave of artistic Renaissance and rising national ‘confidence’ is too simplistic, and obscures important disparities between the ‘twin tracks’ of cultural and political nationalism.