The Impact of Devolution in Wales
Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe?
Published on 15. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-78683-886-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume reflects on two decades of Welsh devolution, and a contributes to debate on its significance and future course. Drawing on previously unpublished interviews undertaken by the late Professor Michael Sullivan with key protagonists in Welsh devolution, and with expert analysis from leading researchers in different disciplines and fields of policy, the book examines what has been described as the emergence through devolution of a 'Welsh stripe' in social democracy. While the volume editors conclude this epithet, coined by Professor Sullivan, is apt, this collection of essays also presents a complex, multi-faceted picture of the drivers of policy, of continuity from the pre-devolution era, as well as change driven by factors within and without Wales. A mixed picture emerges, featuring variously (and in various combinations of) boldness of ambition, distinctive ideological positioning, homegrown priority-setting, the frustrations of the devolution settlement, and adverse (arguably unfair) international comparisons.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
No
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-886-5 (9781786838865)
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06/2022
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Persons
The book is aimed at a mixed audience: academic, civil society, governmental and interested lay readers. Within academia, the book will be of interest across many disciplines to all those who are interested in the application of knowledge in public policy and in engagement between academic and policy communities. Within Wales and the UK, the book will be of interest to all who contemplate the implications of ongoing constitutional and political change and the future of social democracy in that context.
Content
Tables and illustrations
About the Contributors
Foreword by Prys Morgan
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and terms
Editors' Introduction
Aled Eirug and Jane Williams
Chapter One The Sullivan Dialogues
Aled Eirug
Chapter Two Iechyd Da? Devolution and health care
Ceri J. Phillips
Chapter Three Education in Wales since Devolution
David Egan
Chapter Four Economic Development in Wales: Evolution and Revolution
Gareth Davies
Chapter Five Welsh Devolution and the Quest for Sustainable Development: Into a New Era
Terry Marsden
Chapter Six Civil Society, Equalities and Inclusion
Elin Royles and Paul Chaney
Chapter Seven Threads in Policy on Children and Young People: Rights, Welfare and Well-being
Jane Williams
Chapter Eight Towards a million speakers? Welsh language policy post-devolution
Huw Lewis and Elin Royles
Chapter Nine Wales and the World
Geraint Talfan-Davies
About the Contributors
Foreword by Prys Morgan
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and terms
Editors' Introduction
Aled Eirug and Jane Williams
Chapter One The Sullivan Dialogues
Aled Eirug
Chapter Two Iechyd Da? Devolution and health care
Ceri J. Phillips
Chapter Three Education in Wales since Devolution
David Egan
Chapter Four Economic Development in Wales: Evolution and Revolution
Gareth Davies
Chapter Five Welsh Devolution and the Quest for Sustainable Development: Into a New Era
Terry Marsden
Chapter Six Civil Society, Equalities and Inclusion
Elin Royles and Paul Chaney
Chapter Seven Threads in Policy on Children and Young People: Rights, Welfare and Well-being
Jane Williams
Chapter Eight Towards a million speakers? Welsh language policy post-devolution
Huw Lewis and Elin Royles
Chapter Nine Wales and the World
Geraint Talfan-Davies