The Welsh Way

The Welsh Way
Author: Dan Evans
Publisher: Parthian Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1914595041

This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radical and transformational. A call for a political engagement that will create real opportunity for change. Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the UK. Educational attainment remains stubbornly low, particularly in deprived communities. Prison population rates are among the highest in Europe. Unemployment remains stubbornly high. House prices are rising, with the private rented sector lining the pockets of an ever-increasing number of private landlords. Minority groups are consistently marginalised. All this is not to mention the devastatingly disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on working class communities. The Welsh Way interrogates neoliberalism's grasp on Welsh life. It challenges the lazy claims about the 'successes' of devolution, fabricated by Welsh politicians and regurgitated within a tepid, attenuated public sphere. These wide-ranging essays examine the manifold ways in which neoliberalism now permeates all areas of Welsh culture, politics and society. They also look to a wider world, to the global trends and tendencies that have given shape to Welsh life today. Together, they encourage us to imagine, and demand, another Welsh future.

Wellbeing and Devolution

Wellbeing and Devolution
Author: Jennifer Wallace
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030022307

It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open access book explores, for the first time, why each set their goal as improving wellbeing and how they balance the core elements of societal wellbeing (economic, social and environmental outcomes). Do the frameworks represent a genuine attempt to think differently about how devolved government can plan and organise public services? And if so, what early indications are there of the impact is this having on people’s lives?

Wales Says Yes

Wales Says Yes
Author: Richard Wyn Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0708326420

Wales Says Yes provides the definitive account and analysis of the March 2011 Welsh referendum. Drawing on extensive historical research, the book explains the background to the referendum, why it was held, and what was at stake. The book also explains how the rival Yes and No campaigns emerged, and the varying degree of success with which they functioned. Through a detailed account of the results, and analysis of survey evidence on Welsh voters, the book explains why Wales voted Yes in March 2011. Finally, it considers what that result may mean for the future of both Wales and the UK.

The Road to the National Assembly for Wales

The Road to the National Assembly for Wales
Author: James Barry Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The first detailed examination of the course of devolution from 1979 to the Act setting up the Welsh Assembly.

Legislating for Wales

Legislating for Wales
Author: Thomas Glyn Watkin
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786833018

It provides a critical description and evaluation of how laws are made for Wales including the most recent changes made by the Wales Act 2017 which come into effect in 2018. It analyses and assesses the process of preparing and drafting legislation for Wales in terms of the requirements of democratic processes and respect for the rule of law. It analyses and assesses the legislative procedures of the legislatures which make law for Wales, explaining how they reflect the demands of law-making in a representative democracy. It is written in a clear and accessible style which does not require prior knowledge of its subject matter. It is written by two authors who between them have considerable experience at the highest levels of the law-making processes of Wales and the UK.

Whose Wales?

Whose Wales?
Author: Gwynoro Jones
Publisher: Parthian
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781917140706

So whose Wales is it? There is a degree of ambiguity that runs through Welsh politics that in turn has hindered discussions of a clear Welsh political identity. Can any one party claim to have done more than any other in the fight for securing and developing Welsh devolution? This book looks at these claims and counterclaims.

The Monarchy and the Constitution

The Monarchy and the Constitution
Author: Vernon Bogdanor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 1995-11-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198277695

In the increasingly questioning world of the 1990s, the role of the monarchy in a democracy is again coming under scrutiny. Its critics argue that the monarchy is a profoundly conservative institution which serves to inhibit social change; that it has outlived its usefulness; that it symbolizes and reinforces deference and hierachy; and that its radical reform is therefore long overdue.Rejecting these arguments Vernon Bogdanor makes a powerful case for the positive role that monarchy plays in modern democratic politics. Ranging across law, politics, and history he argues that far from undermining democracy, the monarchy sustains and strengthens democratic institutions; that constitutional monarchy is a form of government that ensures not conservatism but legitimacy.The first serious examination of the political role of the monarchy to appear in many years, this book will make fascinating reading for all those interested in the monarchy and the future of British politics.

Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution

Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution
Author: Robert Hazell
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1845408152

Law making is a primary function of government, and how well the three devolved UK legislatures exercise this function will be a crucial test of the whole devolution project. This book provides the first systematic study and authoritative data to start that assessment. It represents the fruits of a four-year collaboration between top constitutional lawyers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and leading researchers in UCL's Constitution Unit. The book opens with detailed studies of law making in the period 1999–2004 in the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, and how they interact with Westminster. Later contributions look at aspects of legislative partnership in the light of the UK's strongly asymmetric devolutionary development, and also explain the unexpected impact of devolution on the courts. Individual chapters focus on various constitutional aspects of law making, examining the interplay of continuity and change in political, legal and administrative practice, and the competing pressures for convergence and divergence between the different parliaments and assemblies. This book is essential reading for academics and students in law and in politics, and for anyone interested in the constitutional and legal aspects of UK devolution, not least the practitioners and policymakers in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

Devolution in the United Kingdom

Devolution in the United Kingdom
Author: Vernon Bogdanor
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2001-04-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192801287

This book places the recent developments in devolution in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone in 1886 through to the latest developments in the year 2000.

Government and Politics of Wales

Government and Politics of Wales
Author: Russell Deacon
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-12-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0748699740

A new analysis of mind/body unity, based on the philosophy of Spinoza.