The Belfast agreement - Its distinctiveness and points of cross-fertilization in the UK's devolution programme

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-31

  Meehan, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 0032623374     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/52.1.19     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. See e.g. 'Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s', special edition of Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998; J. Bradbury, The Blair Government's White Papers on British Devolution', ibid, Autumn 1997.
2. See e.g. 'Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s', special edition of Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998; J. Bradbury, The Blair Government's White Papers on British Devolution', ibid, Autumn 1997.
3. J. Mitchell, 'What Could a Scottish Parliament Do?', ibid, Spring 1998.
4. J. Kendle, Federal Britain: A History (Routledge, 1997).
5. The Agreement, signed in Belfast on 10.4.98. This is the title on its front cover. It is known colloquially as the Belfast Agreement, sometimes the Good Friday Agreement.
6. E. Meehan, 'British-Irish Relations in the Context of the EU', Review of International Relations, xxxxx. This explains the adaptation to Northern Ireland of these terms usually associated with theories of European integration and can be used in respect of references throughout this article to the EU and Northern Ireland.
7. Always a chimerical goal, even in the abstract and in the best of practical conditions; see M. Keating, 'What's Wrong with Asymmetrical Government?', Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998.
8. An early term used by Patrick Geddes; see J. Mawson, 'English Regionalism and New Labour', Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998, p. 159.
9. Edward Freeman, discussed by J. Kendle, op. cit., pp. 38-9. Also A. Brown, 'Aysmmetrical Devolution: The Scottish Case', Political Quarterly, July-Sept. 1998.
10. Edward Freeman, discussed by J. Kendle, op. cit., pp. 38-9. Also A. Brown, 'Aysmmetrical Devolution: The Scottish Case', Political Quarterly, July-Sept. 1998.
11. J. Kendle, op.cit. (Routledge, 1997).
12. His judgement may be supported by the fact that, while Stephen Dorrell once said that a Conservative government would repeal Labour legislation on Scottish devolution, Conservatives have retreated from this position, not least, perhaps, because of the Scottish Conservative Party: see D. Heald, N Geaughan and C. Robb, 'Financial Arrangements for UK Devolution', Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998, p. 25.
13. J. Kendle, op. cit.
14. F. Klug, K. Starmer, and S. Weir, Stuart, The Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom (Routledge, 1996), ch. 7, esp. p. 117.
15. G. Walker, 'Scotland and Northern Ireland', Government and Opposition, Winter 1998.
16. B. O'Leary, The Magic Number is 64', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 May, 1998.
17. C. Gearty, quoted by R. Foster, 'Ulster Chooses Life', Independent on Sunday, 24.5.98.
18. D. Heald, N Geaughan and C. Robb, 'Financial Arrangements for UK Devolution', Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998, pp. 27-9.
19. D. Heald, N Geaughan and C. Robb, loc. cit., p. 42.
20. J. Kendle, op. cit., p. 166.
21. J. Mawson, loc. cit., pp. 159-61.
22. J. Mawson, ibid., pp. 162 and 159.
23. J. Mawson, ibid., p. 168.
24. e.g., C. Harvie, 'Scotland's English Problem', T. Gallagher, 'A Glimpse of a Promised Land' and B. Crick, 'For my Fellow English'; all in O. Dudley Edwards (ed.), A Claim of Right for Scotland (Polygon, 1989), pp. 130, 136 and 160.
25. e.g., C. Harvie, 'Scotland's English Problem', T. Gallagher, 'A Glimpse of a Promised Land' and B. Crick, 'For my Fellow English'; all in O. Dudley Edwards (ed.), A Claim of Right for Scotland (Polygon, 1989), pp. 130, 136 and 160.
26. e.g., C. Harvie, 'Scotland's English Problem', T. Gallagher, 'A Glimpse of a Promised Land' and B. Crick, 'For my Fellow English'; all in O. Dudley Edwards (ed.), A Claim of Right for Scotland (Polygon, 1989), pp. 130, 136 and 160.
27. J. Bradley, 'The Devolution Debate in Wales: The Politics of a Developing Union State?', Regional and Federal Studies, Spring 1998, p. 132.
28. H. Elcock, 'Territorial Debates about Local Government: Or Don't Reorganize! Don't! Don't! Don't!', ibid., pp. 180-7.
29. P. Lynch, 'Reactive Capital: The Scottish Business Community and Devolution', ibid.
30. A. Brown, 'Deepening Democracy: Women and the Scottish Parliament', ibid. The whole article is relevant to the comparisons being made here; the particular quote is from p. 117.
31. W. Paterson, 'Britain and the EU Revisited: Some Unanswered Questions', Scottish Affairs, Autumn 1994; J. Mitchell, 'What Could a Scottish Parliament Do?', Regional and Federal Studies. Spring 1998, pp. 75-81.
32. W. Paterson, 'Britain and the EU Revisited: Some Unanswered Questions', Scottish Affairs, Autumn 1994; J. Mitchell, 'What Could a Scottish Parliament Do?', Regional and Federal Studies. Spring 1998, pp. 75-81.
33. W. Paterson, loc. cit.
34. J. Kendle, op. cit., p. 158.