Constitutional Policy and Territorial Politics in the UK

This is the first of a major two-volume work which provides an authoritative account of devolution in the UK since the initial settlement under New Labour in 1997. This first volume meets the need for a comprehensive UK-wide analysis of the formative years of devolution from the years 1997 to 2007 offering a rigorous and theoretically innovative re-examination of the period that traces territorial politics from initial settlements in Scotland and Wales and the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland to early maturity. Bradbury reviews the trajectory and influencing factors of devolution and its subsequent impacts using a novel framework to set a significant new agenda for thinking and research on devolution.