Table of Contents

1: The Making of the United Kingdom
2: Irish Home Rule
3: Northern Ireland
4: Scotland
5: Wales
6: London (chapter tbc)
7: Devolution: Challenge, Defeat, and Renewal
8: Legislating for Devolution: The Constitutional problems
The Basic Structure
Government Formation and dissolution
The Electoral System
The West Lothian Question
Financing Devolution
The Welsh Model
The English Dimension
The European Dimension
8: Conclusion: Federal Devolution
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Reviews

lucid, informed, thorough and intellectually provocative. Rodney Barker, History of Parliament, 2000.
Bogdanor ... sets out with meticulous clarity the difficulties and complexities of constructing constitutional responses to political demands for a match between politics and powers. Rodney Barker, History of Parliament, 2000.
`Review from previous edition '...But despite the chaotic birthing of the new arrangements, there is a rational and even conservative case for them, one which Bogdanor puts better than I have seen it done elsewhere...''
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