Devolution and Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Devolution in Wales between Capacity and Constraint

   • Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford

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3. ‘Team Wales’:Narratives of Small Country Governance and Constructed Divergence

   • Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford

   Pages 27-53

4. Welsh Devolution and Public Services in a Period of Economic Crisis

   • Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford

   Pages 54-83

5. Wales and the Challenges of Multi-level Governance

   • Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford

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6. Conclusion — Devolution in Wales: Future Challenges

   • Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford

   Pages 116-136

7. Back Matter

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This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda.

• city
• governance
• Policy
• British Politics
• area studies

• Cardiff University, UK

  Alistair Cole

• School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK

  Ian Stafford

Alistair Cole has been Professor of European Politics at Cardiff University since 1999. He is also a Fellow of the AcSS, FRSA, FRHS and FLSW. He is Principal investigator on the Leverhulme Trust's International Network on Territorial Governance (IN-2012-109). In 2014, Alistair Cole was Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Lyons, France.
 
Ian Stafford is a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. Prior to joining the department in April 2012 he was a Research Associate leading on comparative policy analysis within the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD).

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