The Resolution of Internal Conflicts and External Pressures The Labour Party's Devolution Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6265843 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Barry Jones, Michael Keating (0000-0002-4008-9893) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-292 |
| Publication date | 1982-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1982.tb00685.x |
| OpenAlex | W2054080120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
THE QUESTION OF DECENTRALIZATION IS ONE WHICH THE British Labour Party has always found difficult to handle because of its inheritance of contradictory traditions in relation to the British state. Labour's roots in anti-authoritarian radicalism and in the British periphery make it sympathetic to decentralist demands and this has been reinforced by the need to compete electorally for support in the periphery. However, to gain power at Westminster it needs more than peripheral support; it needs to capture power at the centre and, in order to benefit the periphery, to strengthen the power of the centre. Ideologically, the party also possesses a socialist tradition which preaches the indivisibility of working-class interests and deplores nationalism and separatism
Authoritarianism · Decentralization · Democracy · Devolution (biology · Economics · Ideology · Nationalism · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2009 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |