Hardcover, xi + 277 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government." -- Contents: Introduction; Powers and Resources; Executive Government; Parliament and Assemblies and their Legislative Role; Scrutiny Role of Parliament and the Assemblies; The Civil Service and Central Administrations; Quangos and Delegated Governance; Local Government; Intergovernmental and External Relations; Conclusions; References; Index.

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Title: Comparing Devolved Governance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0230273203
ISBN 13: 9780230273207
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine

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Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.

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DEREK BIRRELL Professor of Social Policy in the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, University of Ulster, UK. He was the former Head of the School of Social and Community Sciences, and subsequently the School of Policy Studies. He is the author of the recent books The Impact of Devolution on Social Policy (2009) and Direct Rule and the Governance of Northern Ireland (2009)

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