Jonathan Bradbury

Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive account of devolved politics and government in Wales and the powers and policy of the National Assembly. Set in historical context, the book covers the broad range of governance and policy responsibilities since 1999 and the key problems they have sought to address. In doing so, it assesses the extent to which Welsh devolution has both addressed perceived governance problems cause by the over-centralisation of the UK state, and solved long-term issues of public policy in Wales.

This is the second part of a major two-volume study on devolution in the UK from the initial settlement under New Labour in 1997 to Brexit and its aftermath. This second volume picks up where the first finished, offering a comprehensive analysis of the tumultuous years between 2007 and 2020.

This is the first of a major two-volume work which provides an authoritative account of devolution in the UK since the initial settlement under New Labour in 1997. This first volume meets the need for a comprehensive, UK-wide analysis of the formative years of devolution from the years 1997 to 2007, offering a rigorous and theoretically innovative re-examination of the period that traces territorial politics from initial settlements in Scotland and Wales and the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland to early maturity. Bradbury reviews the trajectory and influencing factors of devolution and its subsequent impacts, using a novel framework to set a significant new agenda for thinking and research on devolution.

"Union and Devolution" provides a thorough analysis of the origins of devolution and its implications for the U. K. as a whole, as well as its constituent parts. Using a thematic approach and focusing on the years post 1979, Jonathan Bradbury gives equal emphasis to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the English regions and introduces the main theoretical schools of thought and research debates.