Review: Wales after Devolution

Devolution and health: challenges for Scotland and Wales.

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Using a conventional model, this paper examines the conditions under which it is possible to stabilise both the output (inflation) cycle and the budget deficit/surplus of a regional economy in a wider currency union. We find that it is never possible. But we can approximate that result (for example, by limiting budgetary instability when the cycle is smoothed) if the product and labour markets ...

Working in Partnership: Devolution and the Development of a Distinctive Equalities Agenda in Employment, in Wales

Since devolution in 1998, the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) has been proactive in exercising its responsibilities for equalities within its territories (Chaney, 2009; Davies, 2003). The Government of Wales Act 2006 moreover, placed a statutory duty on the Assembly to have due regard for equality of opportunity in everything it did. Although discrimination law in itself is not a function that ...

Northern Ireland after Blair: the Challenge of Devolution

The Northern Ireland problem was arguably the most time-consuming of all the domestic political issues to which Tony Blair directed his attention. It found a place at the outset in new Labour’s package of constitutional reforms, and was closely related to—but distinct from—the programme of territorial devolution in Great Britain. This paper analyses the painful stages through which the devoluti...

Higher Education in Scotland and England after Devolution

The twentieth century saw a convergence of the Scottish and English systems of higher education. Since devolution in 1999 there has been divergence. English policy is based on differentiation and competition, while Scotland has favoured integration and more egalitarianism. Scotland has not followed England in introducing up-front tuition fees or top-up fees. These differences are consistent wit...