British Regionalism and Devolution: The Challenges of State Reform and European Integration

by Bradbury,Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780117023567
• ISBN10: 0117023566
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures	1	(2)
Preface	3	(32)
Introduction
Jonathan Bradbury
Part I: Perspectives on Scotland and Wales
Home Rule in Scotland: The Politics and Bases of a Movement	35	(39)
Jack Brand
James Mitchell
Welsh Politics and Changing British and European Contexts	55
Barry Jones
Conservative Governments, Scotland and Wales: A Perspective on Territorial Management	74	(25)
Jonathan Bradbury
The Restructuring of Local Government in Scotland	99	(22)
Ronan Paddison
Part II: British Regionalism and the English Dimension
British Regionalism and the Link with Regional Planning: A Perspective on England	121	(16)
L.J. Sharpe
The Shifting Institutional Framework of the English Regions: The Role of Conservative Policy	137	(21)
Murray Stewart
The Origins and Operation of the Government Offices for the English Regions	158	(22)
John Mawson
Ken Spencer
The English Regional Debate: Towards Regional Governance or Government?	180	(35)
John Mawson
Part III: Local Government, European Union and British Regionalism
British Local Government in the European Union	215	(20)
Michael Goldsmith
Sub-National Partnerships and European Integration: The Difficult Case of London and the South-East	235	(19)
Peter John
Whitehall et la Desert Anglais: Managing and Representing the UK Regions in Europe	254	(19)
Peter Roberts
Conclusion: The Changing Politics and Governance of British Regionalism	273	(37)
Jonathan Bradbury
Swansea
John Mawson
The Contributors	310	(1)
Glossary	311	(2)
Subject Index	313	(6)
Author Index	319