The impact of COVID-19 on devolution : recentralising the British state beyond Brexit? /
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| Author / Creator: | Morphet, Janice, author. |
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| Imprint: | Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021. ©2021 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 120 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bristol shorts insights COVID-19 collection Bristol shorts insights. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12559912 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Epigraph
- The Impact of Covid-19 on Devolution: Recentralising the British State Beyond Brexit?
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- One Devolution in the UK: The Twin Challenges of Brexit and COVID-19
- Why does the Government want to recentralise power?
- I: Letting go
- II: Holding on
- III: Restoring the centre
- The opportunity of COVID-19: the battle between centralisation and devolution
- Two Central Government, Brexit and COVID-19: Centralisation Through Privatisation?
- What is the role of the government in national crises?
- How has the UK central Government managed crises before COVID-19?
- UK approaches to a pandemic within a global context
- The Prime Minister's response to COVID-19
- I: Personalisation
- II: Centralisation
- III: Privatisation
- IV: Politicisation
- Brexit, COVID-19 and centralisation
- Three The Role of the Devolved Nations in Meeting COVID-19
- Introduction
- The role of the EU in devolution and its application in the UK
- The four nations' approach to COVID-19
- I: Leadership
- II: Devolved distinctiveness
- III: Borders
- The relationship between COVID-19 and Brexit in the four nations of the UK
- Four Getting to the Local: Managing the Pandemic in Practice
- Introduction
- Local authority roles in managing crises
- What roles did the Government give to English local authorities in managing COVID-19?
- What did English councils do in addition to Government assigned roles?
- Local lockdowns
- Has this changed the centre's view of local government?
- Five COVID-19 and a UK Unitary State Post-Brexit?
- Introduction
- The UK as a centralised Union?
- The UK status quo?
- The UK as a federal state?
- The UK as an idea?
- England's future: unfinished business?
- The future of the UK?
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
