Devolution
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
Brexit removed the external support for Devolution. The territorial tensions are made worse by the fact that majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland opposed it. There have been three responses: United Kingdom as a unitary state; to fragment into its nations; and to seek a Brexit with exceptions. Only Northern Ireland has been granted n exceptions.
The Smith Commission Report - Overview
Author / Creator: Scottish Parliament Information Centre
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
Smith Commission report is analysed by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission
Author / Creator: Scottish Liberal Democrats
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The 2014 Scottish Liberal Democrats proposal for a Federal UK
Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement
Author / Creator: UK Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
The UK Government response to the Smith Commission
The Smith Commission; COSLA Convention Item 3
Author / Creator: COSLA
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The COSLA review of the implications of the Smith Commission report for local government.
Report of the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament
Author / Creator: Smith Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
Text of the Smith Commission report
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.
Worth the wait? Reforming Intergovernmental Relations
Author / Creator: Nicola McEwen
Media type: Article
Date published:
Intergovernmental relations (IGR) have long been the weak link in the UK’s system of devolution. Overall, the reforms carry the potential for significant improvements to the system.
Brexit and Beyond: the union
Author / Creator: UK in a Changing Europe
Media type: Report
Date published: February 2021
What happens to powers that were formerly exercised at the EU level, but which fall within devolved competence, has been a recurrent source of disagreement between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.
The dilemma of devolution – more powers but potentially worse off
Author / Creator: Richard Parry
Media type: Article
Date published:
Increments [of devolved powers]...expose yet more anomalies and disadvantages to Scotland that only the full powers of independence would resolve.
Devolution
Author / Creator: Malcolm Harvey
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Devolution has caused a de facto decentralisation of the UK, although such arrangements as the Sewel Convention can be over turned by the Westminster government.
Twin Tracks: Cultural and Political Nationalism after 1967
Author / Creator: Scott Hames
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The idea of Devolution arriving on a wave of artistic Renaissance and rising national ‘confidence’ is too simplistic, and obscures important disparities between the ‘twin tracks’ of cultural and political nationalism.
Scottish devolution at 20: some hits, some misses and that eternal maybe
Author / Creator: Christopher A Whatley
Media type: News Media
Date published:
Many hoped devolution would kill nationalism stone dead. Labour colleagues failed to grasp Scots’ powerful sense of nationhood. Although a Labour man argued that devolution could lead to independence. Alex Salmond asserted that independence was “rendered inevitable when the Scottish parliament was established”.
A Sign on the Road
Author / Creator: John S Warren
Media type: News Media
Date published:
A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.
Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Alister Jack
Media type: Collection of essays by a Conservative Think Tank
Date published: September 2021
Is Scotland a Nation or a Region. MP David Cameron called Scotland a Nation in September 2014 in the run up to the Referendum. In 2021, Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, refers to Scotland as a region.
An Unequal Kingdom: The Barriers to Federalism in the UK
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: April 2018
Federalism will not work without constitutions for all the parts of the UK and most importantly England. Without defined powers England can undo any federalism.