The State of the Nations is the first publication of a major research programme into devolution in the United Kingdom, published on behalf of the Constitution Unit at University College London.
Robert Hazell is a former senior civil servant and director of the Nuffield Foundation is Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor of Politics and the Constitution at University College London. The Constitution Unit, which he founded in 1995, is Britain's leading think tank on constitutional reform. His other books include Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years (OUP: 1999).