The metagovernance of English devolution

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...

Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature

Do targets matter? A comparison of English and Welsh National Health priorities.

National priorities and performance management regimes in the National Health Services of England and Wales diverged following devolution, most notably with respect to the use of waiting time targets, which have been progressively strengthened in England but were abandoned in Wales in the immediate post-devolution period. We analyse routine data collected over a six-year period from three Engli...

A case for devolution of health care.

Devolution The BMJ held a one-day conference in Glasgow on 3 April. The participants, from England, Scotland, and Wales, discussed whether they would like the Health Service in each country to devolve and the probable effects of the Government's White Paper on devolution-Our Changing Democracy: Devolution to Scotland and Wales. By invitation three of the participants prepared working papers whi...

Territorial politics in the United Kingdom after devolution and regional reform : whither relative tranquillity and the suspended revolution ?

Introduction One of the principal reforms of the system of government under the Blair Governments was the devolution of power from Westminster to a set of elected meso-level institutions representing the UK's distinct territorially recognised assets: a Parliament for the nation of Scotland (1999); an assembly for the principality of Wales (1999) and an assembly for the province of Northern Irel...