ABSTRACT
This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties.
They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined and accentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
Perspectives on Scotland and Wales
chapter 4|25 pages
Conservative Governments, Scotland and Wales
part II|93 pages
British Regionalism and the English Dimension
chapter 7|21 pages
The Shifting Institutional Framework of the English Regions
part III|97 pages
Local Government, European Union and British Regionalism