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Narrating Devolution: Politics and/as Scottish Fiction [PDF]
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 This article explores the tensions between the competing cultural and political narratives of devolution, anchored around James Robertson’s state- of-the-nation novel And the Land Lay Still (2010).
Scott Hames
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, 2018 This chapter attempts to draw out comparisons and make sense of devolution as a UK-wide phenomenon. Devolution has taken a variety of forms at different times in different parts of the UK.
Roger Mortimore, Andrew Blick
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Democratic Deficit or the Europeanisation of Secession? Explaining the Devolution Referendums in Scotland [PDF]
, 2005 This article deals with the variation in the demand for self-government in Scotland – as measured by the vote in the two referendums – between 1979, when devolution was rejected, and 1997, when devolution was endorsed.
Dardanelli, Paolo
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The effects of the devolution of HIV treatment programmes from external to local non-governmental organisations: A mixed-methods study in Kano, Northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2021 Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe devolution of health programmes from external to local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is a relatively new phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yahaya, Habibu Bala
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Federalism or devolution of power? Sri Lanka's perspectives
Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2020 The concepts of decentralization and devolution are not new phenomena to Sri Lanka. Since Independence (1948), the processes of decentralization and devolution have taken place at a varying pace to address changes in local socio‐economic and political ...
Ranjanee De Alwis
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Thoughts on the meaning content of the principle of local autonomy
Institutiones Administrationis, 2023 Autonomy is a fundamental principle in many areas of public law, and particularly in relation to local self-government. The term itself is widely used, sometimes too widely. But what are the conceptual foundations of this principle?
Ádám Varga
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Brexit and Revolution: a Re-centralization of Power at the Expense of Scotland?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2022 Since 2016, successive British Governments have been disrupting the operation of devolution. They negotiated Brexit with the EU on their own, without consulting their devolved counterparts. They also intend to interfere over devolved matters to cope with
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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The EU Structural and Cohesion Funds: Solution or Smokescreen to Europe’s Regional Disparities? [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2004 The EU has long had a goal of ‘reducing economic and social disparities.’ Since the reforms to the European Structural Funds in 1988 the Commission has encouraged enhanced subnational actor participation in policy-making, although subsequent reforms in ...
Adrian Reilly
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Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2020 The Internal Market Bill of the UK government is meant to secure flawless motion of goods and services between all parts of Britain in the wake of Brexit, to prevent competition and trade barriers between the regions, including Northern Ireland. The bill
Elena Ananieva
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Les travaillistes et la dévolution 1966-1999
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2006 From 1966 onwards the Labour Party started to change its viewpoint on devolution, becoming increasingly favourable to the creation of devolved governments in Scotland and Wales.
Carine Berberi
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