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New governance - new democracy? : post-devolution Wales

Title: New governance - new democracy? : post-devolution Wales / edited by Paul Chaney, Tom Hall and Andrew Pithouse.
Publication: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001.

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250 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The creation of the National Assembly for Wales has altered the democratic landscape in Wales. In assuming many policy and administrative responsibilities previously held by central government, the Assembly promises innovation in governance and there are high expectations that devolution will bring about significant improvements in Welsh life." "New Governance - New Democracy? questions whether these expectations are likely to be fulfilled. Drawing on interviews with many of the people who have influenced the devolution experiment, from politicians to ordinary citizens, this book brings together five research projects based throughout Wales which focus on different aspects of the devolutionary process." "This engagement with issues of both immediate and enduring significance for Wales offers interdisciplinary discussion and analysis of issues ranging from electoral turnout, participation and legitimacy to the involvement of marginalized groups in the process of government. It also examines the developing relationship between the new Welsh legislature and the voluntary sector, the governance of economic development and the regulation and political control of public agencies in Wales. New Governance - New Democracy? constitutes the first serious project-based assessment of whether the National Assembly will lead to a better democracy for Wales."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Politics and society in Wales

Uniform Title

Politics and society in Wales

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.

Contents

Turnoout, participation and legitimacy in the politics of post-devolution Wales / Richar Wyn Jones and Dafydd Trystan -- Inclusive government for excluded groups: women and disabled people / Sandra Betts, John Borland and Paul Chaney -- Inclusive government for excluded groups: ethnic minorities / Charlotte Williams and Paul Chaney -- The National Assembly and the Voluntary Sector: an equal partnership? / Bella Dicks, Tom Hall and Andrew Pithouse -- Learning by doing: devolution and the governance of economic development in Wales / Kevin Morgan and Gareth Rees -- Devolution and regulation: the political control of public agencies in Wales / Rachel Ashworth, George Boyne and Richard Walker -- Reading the runes / Paul Chaney, Tom Hall and Andrew Pithouse.

ISBN

0708316786
9780708316788

LCCN

2001536158

OCLC

ocm48238132
48238132
SCSB-14259732

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Princeton University Library