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Author: Arthur Aughey
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Author: Vernon Bogdanor
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2001-04-26
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0192801287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book places the recent developments in devolution in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone in 1886 through to the latest developments in the year 2000.
Author: F. Bechhofer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-07-08
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0230234143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British? Social and political scientists answer these questions vital to the future of the British state.
Author: Arthur Aughey
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Author: Ailsa Henderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0192643789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent opinion polls have raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the Union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain's place in world and perhaps, ultimately, the state itself, it remains poorly understood. In this book Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones draw on data from the Future of England Survey, a specially commissioned public attitudes survey programme exploring the political implications of English identity, to make new and original arguments about the nature of English nationalism. They demonstrate that English nationalism is emphatically not a rejection of Britain and Britishness. Rather, English nationalism combines a sense of grievance about England's place within the United Kingdom with a fierce commitment to a particular vision of Britain's past, present, and future. Understanding its Janus-faced nature - both England and Britain - is key not only to understanding English nationalism, but also to understanding the ways in which it is transforming British politics.
Author: Henry Matthew Drucker
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr Russell Deacon
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-04-04
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 074863035X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an introduction to the major changes in the political landscape of the UK caused by the political devolution of power to London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is extensive examination of the historical background to these changes with an even more detailed focus upon contemporary political events. The book also helps those wishing to understand devolution by explaining its development, and assessing the operation, strengths and weaknesses of the devolved state. Throughout the text there are relevant examples used which illustrate the application of more complex ideas and terms, and a balanced picture is presented which takes in the views of federalists, unionists and nationalists.Key Features:*Defines and assesses legislative, executive and administrative devolution across the UK*Considers the impact of devolved bodies on policy and legislative outcomes*Examines the current and likely future impact of the devolved bodies*Details the relationship between the devolved bodies and the Westminster government*Explores the extent to which the system of government in the UK as a whole has changed*Places political developments in their social, economic and cultural contexts
Author: Sonia Alonso
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0199691576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do national governments implement devolution given the high risk that it will encourage peripheral parties to demand ever more devolved powers? The aim of Challenging the State is to answer this question through a comparative analysis of devolution in four European countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Author: Anniversary Professor David Moon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781138936454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Béland
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-08-12
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 019161386X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs such as the British NHS, but they have seldom examined this connection in reference to nationalism. Specialists of nationalism rarely mention social policy, focusing instead on language, culture, ethnicity, and religion. The main objective of this book is to explore the nature of the connection between nationalism and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. At the theoretical level, this analysis will shed new light on a more general issue: the relationships between identity formation, territorial politics, and social policy. Although this book refers to the experience of many different countries, the main cases are three multinational states, that is, states featuring strong nationalist movements: Canada (Québec), the United Kingdom (Scotland), and Belgium (Flanders). The book looks at the interplay between nationalism and social policy at both the state and sub-state levels through a detailed comparison between these three cases. In its concluding chapter, the book brings in cases of mono-national states (i.e. France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States) to provide broader comparative insight on the meshing of nationalism and social policy. The original theoretical framework for this research is built using insight from selected scholarship on nationalism and on the welfare state.
