The Political Economy of Devolution in Britain from the Postwar Era to Brexit

This book examines the political economy of devolution in Britain from the postwar period to the present. It situates devolution in Britain within an understanding of the partisan recalibration of political, economic and democratic scales (or levels) of the state. The author utilizes various explanatory tools to unpack complex social, economic, spatial and political phenomena across national, regional and local scales. The book further contributes to our conceptual understanding of decentralization as a broader, comparative, phenomenon. Particular emphasis is placed on examining why decentralization and devolution occur at particular points in time, which enables the investigation into how political and fiscal powers are (re)organized at different levels of the state.

Contributes to a conceptual understanding of decentralization as a broader, comparative phenomenon Follows the development of devolution and decentralisation over a number of decades Suggests that the UK's position as a bastion of centralisation changed when devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland took place

Auteur
Nick Vlahos is a researcher in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Decentralization, Devolution and the Political Economy of Scale.- Chapter 2: National Level Scale Commitments from 1945-1970.- Chapter 3: The Struggles over Scale Commitments from 1970-1997.- Chapter 4: Political Devolution as a Scale Commitment from 1997-2010.- Chapter 5: Sub-regional Scale Commitments and Devolution from 2010-2020.- Chapter 6: Democracy, Devolution and the Political Economy of Scale.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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