Devolution and power in the United Kingdom /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Description:	xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Devolution series Devolution series.
Subject:	Decentralization in government -- Great Britain. Executive power -- Great Britain. Central-local government relations -- Great Britain. Regionalism -- Great Britain. Central-local government relations. Decentralization in government. Executive power. Regionalism. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6828676

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Other authors / contributors:	Trench, Alan.
ISBN:	9780719075759 0719075750
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
Summary:	"Presenting original research from the Leverhulme and ESRC research programmes, this book is the first comprehensive examination of intergovernmental relations in the developed UK. With contributors from a range of disciplines including political science, law, public, policy, economics, history and comparative politics, it builds a detailed picture of the UK's system of intergovernmental relations as it developed between 1999 and 2007. It also examines how the UK's practices relate to those of other decentralised and federal states, and adopts a resource dependency framework to examine the impact of devolution on the territorial distribution of power in the United Kingdom. It explains the paradox of autonomy and control as a form of 'conditional autonomy', which has been possible because of the benign political circumstances that have accompanied devolution's early years - but which may not survive in rougher conditions. Devolution's easy bedding-in has been due to good fortune more than good design." "This book will be invaluable for all interested in devolution, particularly students, academics and researchers interested in British politics or comparative territorial politics, and in public law."--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: Devolution and power in the United Kingdom. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007

Table of Contents:

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor's note
1. Introduction: territory, devolution and power in the United Kingdom
2. The United Kingdom as a state of unions: unity of government, equality of political rights and diversity of institutions
3. The framework of devolution: the formal structure of devolved power
4. Funding devolution: the power of money
5. The politics of devolution finance and the power of the Treasury
6. The practical outcomes of devolution: policy-making across the UK
7. The fragile divergence machine: citizenship, policy divergence and devolution in health policy
8. Washing dirty linen in private: the processes of intergovernmental relations and the resolution of disputes
9. The parties and intergovernmental relations
10. The European Union, devolution and power
11. The United Kingdom as a federalised or regionalised union
12. Conclusion: devolution and the territorial distribution of power in the UK
Bibliography
Index

Devolution and power in the United Kingdom /

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