- Paperback: 339 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192893106
- ISBN-13: 978-0192893109
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis. This work places recent developments in the United Kingdom in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone's espousal of Home Rule in 1886 right up to the 1998 legislation governing the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. As well as considering what devolution will mean for Scotland and Wales, and how it will work in practice, Vernon Bogdanor discusses parallels with earlier devolution debates, giving special attention to the issue of Irish Home Rule which racked British politics from 1886 to 1914. He also examines the situation in Northern Ireland, which possessed its own Parliament from 1921 to 1972, providing an analysis of the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Devolution cuts across the boundaries of disciplines such as history, political science and law, and should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the significance of one of the most important constitutional developments of our time. The book is therefore aimed at the interested general reader, as well as students of political science, the history of government and British politics.
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Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Brasenose College, Oxford.
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For anyone interested in the issues of Home Rule, devolution and federalism in the UK, historically and contemporarily, this book is thorough and detailed, examining the internal party battles and the political battles fought at the ballot box. The sections on Irish Home Rule are also particularly illuminating, since many of the same arguments were repeated in the 1970s and prior to the 1997 referenda.
However, I do feel that, in omitting Cornwall from the chapter describing the "making of the UK", the author neglects a significant part of Anglo-Celtic political history. We should bear in mind that the Cornish or "West Welsh" resisted the Anglo-Saxon invasion until around A.D.930 before their border with Wessex was finally fixed at the Tamar. Thereafter, Cornwall periodically rebelled against London and continued to enjoy considerable political autonomy (including the right of the Stannary Parliament to veto Westminster legislation). Furthermore, given the absence of any Act of Union, Cornwall's de jure status as a part of England is hotly contested by some constitutional experts. And even today, Cornwall is again proclaiming its 'otherness' as a self-defining historic, cultural and geographical region (or even nation), who refuses to be submerged into a South-West agglomeration.
Despite this oversight, Devolution in the United Kingdom is an truly excellent book. I only hope subsequent editions will contain a Cornish chapter which might shed light on this unresolved constitutional question.
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DEVOLUTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM by Vernon Bogdanor
This is a masterful, excellent scholarship that considers the motivations for devolution (history, political bases, constitutional implications, possible consequences) and much more thorough than any other study I've seen.
I work to try to find a solution - politically and constitutionally suitable- for a country known as the Union of Burma/Myanmar. The objectives at the outset, a federal democracy, and the current reality, a unitary state militarily governed, requires devolution back to the original plan to be acceptanle to the citizenry.
Prof. Bogdanor's work is the only that has offered any help in our situation.
I most highly recommend this work. I would like to see what he has done on the British situation since 1998.
This is a masterful, excellent scholarship that considers the motivations for devolution (history, political bases, constitutional implications, possible consequences) and much more thorough than any other study I've seen.
I work to try to find a solution - politically and constitutionally suitable- for a country known as the Union of Burma/Myanmar. The objectives at the outset, a federal democracy, and the current reality, a unitary state militarily governed, requires devolution back to the original plan to be acceptanle to the citizenry.
Prof. Bogdanor's work is the only that has offered any help in our situation.
I most highly recommend this work. I would like to see what he has done on the British situation since 1998.
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