Books and Special Issues of Journals
Books
The Devolution Programme's book series "The Devolution Series", with Manchester University Press, is now taking shape.
In addition:
Adams, John and Schmuecker, Katie
Devolution in Practice 2006: public policy differences within the UK
ippr, London, 2005
Adams, John and Robinson,Peter (eds.):
Devolution in Practice: Public Policy Differences within the UK
ippr, London, 2002
Barry Jones, J. and Osmond, John (eds.):
Inclusive Government and Party Management:
The National Assembly for Wales and the Work of its Committees.
The Welsh Governance Centre, Cardiff University, March 2001
Wilford, Rick (ed):
Aspects of the Belfast Agreement.
OUP 2001
Special Issues of Journals
Regional Studies, Volume 36, Number 7, October 2002
'Devolution and the English Question'
Following the publication of the UK Government's White Paper on the English Regions in May 2002, researchers from the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme are publishing a new collection of analysis about the English regions in the leading journal Regional Studies.
The Regional Studies special issue was edited by Charlie Jeffery (Director of the Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme) and John Mawson (Warwick Business School). Entitled Devolution and the English Question and published in October 2002, provides assessments of the recent White Paper and the wider trajectory of government policy on the English regions.
It also includes articles on how English questions are addressed in Whitehall, on the role of English regions in EU policy-making and on public expenditure flows into the English regions. Full list of the contents of the special issue.
For information on how to order copies, please contact Regional Studies (contact details available from the Regional Studies website
Local Economy, Volume 17 No 3
This special issue sets out to explore the articulation of the 'new regionalism' with economic governance arrangements existing at other spatial scales, and particularly to draw out some emerging themes and implications for the established structures and mechanisms of local economic development. The contributions are drawn from researchers furnded under the ESRC's Devolution and Constitutional Change programme, together with other leading commentators on devolution and regionalism in the UK, to reflect upon the experience to date and to highlight particular areas of change and tension which are likely to surface in the coming years
Contents:
Dave Valler et al:
Introduction: Devolution and economic governance in the UK
Kevin Morgan:
Viewpoint: The New Regeneration Narrative: local development in a Multi-Level polity
Mark Goodwin:
Devolution and Economic Governance in the UK: Uneven Geographies, Uneven Capacities?
John Tomaney:
In What Sense a Regional Problem? Sub-National Governance in England.
Steve Musson et al:
Building a World Class Region: Regional Strategy in S.E. England
Peter Roberts and Paul Benneworth:
Devolution, Sustainability and LED
Local Economy website
Scottish Affairs No 41, Autumn 2002
'Full Fiscal autonomy' is a term used in media and political debate without any great precision as to its meaning. This is often accompanied by confusion about the fiscal powers presently available to the Scottish Parliament, which is characterised as having no fiscal powers and as being wholly dependent on grants from the UK government. Neither of these statements is true.
Nevertheless, it is certainly true that the Scottish Parliament is more dependent than intermediate levels of government in mature federations on grants from the centre, and there are those who argue that this makes the Scottish Parliament 'less accountable'.
The debate was brought to life during the 2001 general election campaign when 12 economists signed a letter to the Scotsman arguing for 'fiscal autonomy' (without defining what was meant by that term), asserting that this would improve Scotland's economic prospects.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to allow authors holding different views in the fiscal autonomy debate in Scotland to develop their arguments at length. These articles will inform the debate on fiscal autonomy by clarifying the issues involved and by clearly marshalling the arguments which underpin different policy positions.
Contents:
David Heald and Alasdair McLeod:
Fiscal Autonomy under Devolution: Introduction to Symposium
Julia Darby, Anton Muscatelli and Graeme Roy:
Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Autonomy: Lessons for the UK from other Industrialised Countries
Andrew Goudie:
GERS and Fiscal Autonomy
Jim Cuthbert and Margaret Cuthbert:
Can Fiscal Autonomy Improve a Devolved Scotland's Economic Prospects?
Arthur Midwinter:
The Limits to Fiscal Autonomy under the the Devolution Settlement
David Bell and Alex Christie:
A New Fiscal Settlement for Scotland?
Scottish Affairs website
European And Urban Regional Studies
A special issue of EURS is in preparation and will feature papers presented by members of the Programme at the 2002 EURS conference in Barcelona.
This will be published during 2003. EURS website
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