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Chapter nine: Governing from below
- ‘Has devolution worked?’
This paper looks at devolution over the last 20 years. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England are all discussed in part one. Part two then touches on how devolution has affected the nation’s economy, trust in politics, policy innovation, and the overall UK constitution. The paper ends with considerations regarding devolution and Brexit.
- ‘Multi-Level Governance and the Study of the British State’
Given the constitutional circumstance of the British state, multi-level governance can become complex, with a range of intergovernmental relationships. These undefined jurisdictional boundaries redefine the state-society relationship. Multi-level governance, therefore, is an analytical framework which can help our understanding of this changing nature of the British state. This article posits a multi-level governance model to be juxtaposed with the Westminster Model.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095207670401900103
- ‘Centralised or multi-level: which governance systems are having a ‘good’ pandemic?’
With a focus on the cases of Switzerland and England, this blog looks at both countries’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Decentralised capacity coupled with an efficient relationship at different levels of governance are described to lead to a better handling of crisis.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/governance-systems-covid19/
- ‘The Westminster Model and the State of Unions’
This short article talks about the devolved institutions and their relationship with the Westminster Model. Specifically, it makes the point that given the central nature of the executive, devolved institutions cannot really break away, thus limiting how radically different the devolved institutions can be.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249293968_The_Westminster_Model_and_the_State_of_Unions