Devolution in the United Kingdom
Problems of a Piecemeal Approach to Constitutional Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6375477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Jeffery, C S Jeffery (0000-0003-1759-0302, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-313 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/publius/pjn038 |
| OpenAlex | W2080318350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 5 |
The UK's devolution reforms have been piecemeal, directed at specific territorial issues in one or other part of the UK, and poorly coordinated with one another. While this piecemeal approach reflects a centuries-old approach to territorial statecraft in the UK, the addition since 1999 of democratic process and, more recently, partisan conflict between UK and devolved government, has established strong centrifugal tendencies. The article explores how territorial policy variation, inter-regional spillovers, the fusion of UK central government institutions with those for governing England, contradictions in public opinion, and under-institutionalized intergovernmental relations underline that centrifugal dynamic. Most significantly there has been no sustained attempt to review and renew the purposes of union since devolution
Central government · Decentralization · Democracy · Devolution (biology · Government (linguistics · Local government · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Law · Public Administration
Inching toward Incrementalism
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Coordination, agenda-setting, and future planning
How are feminist policy frames challenged and resisted, and with what effects? Exploring the Scottish domestic abuse policy case
Dual polity, dual careers? The dynamic interaction of political careers and territorial order in the devolved United Kingdom
Federalists in name only? Reassessing the federal credentials of the Liberal Democrats
Fifth nation
England plus? Territory, identity and fiscal devolution in the UK
Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections
Enter parliament but never become part of it’
Arraying institutional layers in federalism reforms
Constitutional Change in Federations—A Framework for Analysis
Devolution and identity
Electoral and partisan consequences of sovereignty referendum outcomes
Broadcasting after devolution
The Scotland Bill
A more collaborative way of governing? Lessons from Australia and Canada for the UK’s Council of the Nations and Regions
The rise, fall and resurrection of soft spaces? The regional governance of transport policy in Wales
The Party Politics of Post-Devolution Identity in Northern Ireland
Contesting sovereignty and borders
The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe
Intergovernmental relations and health in Great Britain after devolution
The British Political Tradition and Constitutional Policy
Federal Constitutional Values and Citizen Attitudes to Government
Peace-Promoting Federalism
Preferences Regarding the Vertical Distribution of Authority in Brazil
The Effect of Information About Local Demand for Redistribution on Support for Territorial Transfers Among Affluent Groups
Taking Back Control’, the UK’s Constitutional Narrative and Schrodinger’s Devolution
Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation
Introduction to devolution and the geographies of policy
A policy on the move? Spatial planning and State Actors in the post-devolutionary UK and Ireland
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |