The West Lothian question

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 156-172

  Bogdanor, Vernon ^a  

^a BRASENOSE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 73849100221     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsp044     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. This article is based on the author's book, 'The New British Constitution' published by Hart in 2009.
2. House of Commons Debates, vol. 332, col. 795, 10 June 1999.
3. Cited in Vernon Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 228.
4. Cited in Arthur Aughey, Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State, Pluto Press, 2001, p. 65.
5. Royal Commission on the Constitution, HMSO 1973, Cmnd. 5460, para 531.
6. Cited in Meg Russell and Guy Lodge, 'The Government of England by Westminster', in Robert Hazell (ed.), The English Question, Manchester University Press, 2006, p. 86. This book provides an admirable account of proposed solutions to the West Lothian Question.
7. In an opposition day debate on the idea of English votes for English laws, House of Commons debates, 21 January 2004, vol. 416, col. 1394.
8. Royal Commission on the Constitution, para 813.
9. Simon Heffer, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.
10. John Curtice, 'What the People Say - If Anything' in Hazell (ed.), The English Question, pp. 130,132.
11. Quoted in Arthur Midwinter, Michael Keating and James Mitchell, Politics and Public Policy in Scotland, Macmillan 1991, p. 52.
12. House of Commons Debates, 3rd series, vol. 304, col. 252, 13 April 1886.
13. Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, 'Introduction: Centres and Peripheries in Western Europe' in Rokkan and Urwin (eds), The Politics of Territorial Identity: Studies in European Regionalism, Sage, 1982, p. 11.
14. Michael Keating, 'From Functional to Political Regionalism: England in Comparative Perspective', in Hazell (ed.), The English Question, p. 143.
15. Ibid..
16. Robert Hazell, 'Conclusion: What are the Answers to the English Question' in Hazell (ed.), The English Question, p. 240.
17. Aughey, Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State, p. 182.
18. Richard Rose, Understanding the United Kingdom, Longman, 1982, p. 29.
19. The Ashdown Diaries, vol. 2, 1997-1999, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2001, p. 446: entry for 7 May 1999.