Devolution
Sleeping with an Elephant: Devolution and the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
Author / Creator: Nicola McEwen
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The constitutional fall-out from Brexit has been dramatic and wide-ranging. The impact of withdrawal on devolution and the territorial constitutionis examined.
Constitutional reform: Controversy or Consensus on how the UK should be governed
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Opinion poll
Date published: 2022
A majority of people want electoral reform, and Scottish independence. Increasing support is being shown for Irish reunification and for changing the UK constitution.
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: Review
Date published:
The Joint Ministerial Committee system of devolution is no more, replaced by a three-tier system of intergovernmental forums.
Respect and Co-operation: Building a Stronger Union for the 21st century
Author / Creator: Select Committee on the Constitution
Media type: Report
Date published:
Strengthening the Union requires a sensitivity to the pluralism of the the UK. Intergovernmental structures are inadequate to ensure devolution and the Union can be maintained.
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 Devolution: A New UK Settlement or the Break-Up of Britain?
Author / Creator: David Gow
Media type: Review
Date published: May 2018
An analysis of the constitutional conflict between Westminster and the devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast...concludes that the UK faces a stark choice between a new political/constitutional settlement or the break-up of Britain.
State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Date published: 2021
The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a multi national union in which the key elements of people, state, values and sovereignty are contested.
The Union Connectivity Review and Unionism
Author / Creator: Daniel Wincott
Media type: Article
Date published:
The Irish Sea Bridge is not the only example of the UK government being tempted to intervene unilaterally in devolved infrastructure plans.
The State of Scotland
Author / Creator: Neal Ascherson
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
There can be no going back from devolution. But going forward from it could make the United Kingdom unrecognizable and project the old ‘British’ nations into a more modern and flexible relationship.
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.
Political Behaviour in Scotland
Author / Creator: Ailsa Henderson
Date published: 2020
Are Scottish voters more engaged with politics since the Referendum. Do they view Scottish Parliament elections as primary or Westminster ones?
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.
Scottish devolution at 20: some hits, some misses and that eternal maybe
Author / Creator: Christopher A Whatley
Media type: News Media
Date published:
Many hoped devolution would kill nationalism stone dead. Labour colleagues failed to grasp Scots’ powerful sense of nationhood. Although a Labour man argued that devolution could lead to independence. Alex Salmond asserted that independence was “rendered inevitable when the Scottish parliament was established”.
A Sign on the Road
Author / Creator: John S Warren
Media type: News Media
Date published:
A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.