Paolo Dardanelli - Between Two Unions: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution

Europeanisation and Scottish devolution

DEVOLUTION series

series editor Charlie Jeffrey

Territorial politics and health policy
UK health policy in comparative perspective Scott L. Greer

Devolution has established new political institutions in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London and the other English regions since 1997. These devolution reforms have far-reaching implications for the politics, policy and society of the UK. Radical institutional change, combined with a fuller capacity to express the UKs distinctive territorial identities, is reshaping the way the UK is governed and opening up new directions of public policy. These are the biggest changes to UK politics for at least 150 years.

The Devolution series brings together the best research in the UK on devolution and its implications. It draws together the best analysis from the Economic and Social Research Councils research programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change. The series will have three central themes, each a vital component in understanding the changes devolution has set in train.

1. Delivering public policy after devolution, diverging from Westminster. Does devolution result in the provision of different standards of public service in health or education, or in widening economic disparities from one part of the UK to another? If so, does it matter?

2. The political institutions of devolution. How well do the new devolved institutions work? How effectively are devolved and UK-level matters coordinated? How have political organisations which have traditionally operated UK-wide political parties, interest groups responded to multi-level politics?

3. Public attitudes, devolution and national identity. How do people in different parts of the UK assess the performance of the new devolved institutions? Do people identify themselves differently as a result of devolution? Does a common sense of Britishness still unite people from different parts of the UK?

Paolo Dardanelli

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This book started life as a doctoral thesis for the London School of Economics and I owe a very great deal to the encouragement, support and assistance I received from many people and institutions for a number of years. The Economic and Social Research Council and the Department of Government of the London School of Economics awarded me Research Studentships (ESRC No. R00429824368), without which the research on which this book is based would have never been completed. I am grateful to the policy-makers who agreed to be interviewed and to the librarians and archivists who endured my requests, in particular Sean Townsend of the LSE Data Library, Elizabeth Canning of the STUC archive in Glasgow and Sarah Charlton of the House of Commons. For valuable comments and suggestions, I am indebted to the organisers and participants of the UACES Annual Conference in Glasgow in January 1999, the UACES workshop in Belfast in June 2000 and the ECPR Joint Sessions in Grenoble in April 2001 as well as to the convenors and participants in the doctoral workshops at the LSE, in particular Antonia Dodds, Claire Sutherland, Lee McGowan, Eiko Thielemann, Howard Elcock, Michael Keating, Pieter van Houten, Rodney Barker, 5ebastian Balfour, Abby Innes and Chris van Stolk. Simon Hix, George Jones, James Mitchell, Joanne Wright, Charlie Jeffery, Thomas Saalfeld and Clive Church, as well as the staff and referees at Manchester University Press, have read parts of the book or the whole of it and have given me scholarly advice and personal encouragement for which I am most grateful to them. I would also like to thank my fellow PhD students at the LSE with whom I shared the PS2/3 research room and all the difficult and joyous moments of doing doctoral research, in particular: Thibaut Kleiner, Leonidas Makris, Susana Berruecos, Francisco Chico Gaetani, Geeta Kulshrestha, Razmik Panossian, Zhand Shakibi, Adam Tebble and Nebojsa Vladisavljevic. My thanks also go to Marco and Kaori Costantino, Stefano and Manuela Saldini, Edoardo and Silvia Faganello and Daniela Orsetti who offered friendship and understanding throughout these, sometimes difficult, years. Wendy Jenkins was by my side for most of the time offering support and much more which was of great help in completing this work. Finally, my deepest thanks are to my parents, Matteo Dardanelli and Giovanna Altana, who first taught me to love the pursuit of knowledge and have offered unwavering support ever since.