Devolution's unfinished business

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 465-474

  Mitchell, James ^a  

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Author keywords

Constitutional politics; Devolution; Legitimacy

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EID: 33847668399     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00819.x     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. David Beetham, The Legitimation of Power, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.
2. C. Anderson, A. Blais, S. Bowler, T. Donovan and O. Listhaug, Losers' Consent, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
3. Beetham, The Legitimation of Power, pp. 4-5.
4. Ibid., pp. 15-16.
5. Ibid., p. 18.
6. Richard Nadeau and André Blais, 'Accepting the election outcome: the effect on participation on losers' consent', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 23, 1983, pp. 553-63;
7. Anderson et al., Losers' Consent.
8. Anderson et al., Losers' Consent, p. 10.
9. Alvin Jackson, Home Rule: an Irish History, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003, p. 83.
10. James Mitchell, Governing Scotland: the Invention of Administrative Devolution, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1983, pp. 212-13.
11. David Easton, A Framework for Political Analysis, London, Prentice-Hall International, 1965, pp. 124-5.
12. George Younger, 'A Tory's view of Scotland', The Scotsman, 15 December 1967.
13. The Glasgow Herald, 21 and 28 February 1982.
14. Gordon Anthony and John Morison, 'Here, there and (maybe) here again: the story of law making for post-1998 Northern Ireland' in Robert Hazell and Richard Rawlings, eds, Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution, Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2005, pp. 155-92.
15. http://www.dca.gov.uk/speeches/2006/sp060310.htm
16. The idea of an 'expectations gap' was developed in a series of lectures and papers that the author delivered before devolution, warning that the expectations exceeded the capabilities of the devolved bodies as then proposed. See James Mitchell, 'Towards a new constitutional settlement?', in Cohn Hay, ed., British Politics Today, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002, pp. 237-58.
17. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/SB06-23.pdf
18. Vernon Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 255.
19. Brendan O'Leary, 'The nature of the Agreement', Fordham Journal of International Law, vol. 22, 1999, pp. 1628-67.
20. A. V. Dicey, England's Case Against Home Rule, London, John Murray, 1886.
21. James Mitchell, 'Towards a new constitutional settlement?'
22. Richard Rose, Understanding the United Kingdom, London, Longman, 1982.
23. Meg Russell and Robert Hazell, 'Devolution and Westminster' in Robert Hazell, ed., The State and the Nations: the First Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom, Thorverton, Imprint Academic, p. 202.
24. A recent example of this is an article by lain MacWhirter, 'Why the English should let sleeping Jocks lie', The Herald, Wednesday, 15 February 2006.
25. Beetham, The Legitimation of Power, pp. 15-16.
26. http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/assets/Hansard_society_speech.pdf
27. Beetham, The Legitimation of Power, p. 19.
28. Anderson et al., Losers' Consent, p. 10.
29. Michael Wills, A New Agenda: Labour and Democracy, London, IPPR, 2006.
30. Sir Reginald Coupland, Welsh and Scottish Nationalism, London, Collins, 1954, pp. 321-9.
31. House of Commons Library Research Paper, The Electoral Administration Bill, London, House of Commons, 2005, p. 11.
32. Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics, London, Methuen, 1962.