Constitutional Jurisprudence on Federalism and Devolution in UK and Canada

Brouillet, Eugénie; Mullen, Tom

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“…Politicians may have complained about them but this did not lead to popular discontent. Various factors contributed to this including the fact that from 1999 to 2007 the same party, Labour, formed the UK Government, Scottish Government and Welsh Government either alone or in coalition with the Liberal Democrats (Scotland 1999(Scotland -2007Wales 1990Wales -2013, public spending was buoyant and economic circumstances generally favourable (Brouillet & Mullen, 2018). However, asymmetry has recently become more politically salient, particularly in England.…”

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Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom

Mullen

2019

Contemporary Social Science

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Brexit presents a major challenge to the territorial governance of the UK. Despite a major overhaul of territorial governance in 1999 when the current devolution schemes were created, and subsequent changes to those schemes, the territorial governance of the UK has not been stabilised. There remained a series of unresolved issues. Eventually, these issues would have to have been faced, but Brexit has not only forced them onto the agenda, it has done so in fraught political circumstances which make them harder to resolve. Brexit highlights already existing tensions in territorial governance, it also creates a new set of problems for the institutions and processes of territorial governance to deal with, including how to implement the changes that Brexit requires in the context of extensive devolution of power. This article, therefore, sets out the difficulties Brexit poses for territorial governance and considers the prospects for resolving them.

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Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom

Mullen

2019

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Scotland’s Constitutional Odyssey

Keating

2023

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism

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State and Nation in the United Kingdom

Keating¹

2021

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The United Kingdom is not a nation-state but a political union. It was formed by the coming together, over centuries, of territories which retained their own national identities and institutions. Key questions of demos (the people), telos (the purpose of union), ethos (binding values) and the locus of sovereignty were never definitively resolved. Since 1999, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have had their own self-governing institutions within the Union. Devolution was an effort to stabilize the Union in the face of centrifugal pressures, but it left the same key questions unresolved. The Union is now contested in all four of its component parts and fundamental questions are raised about the meaning of political, social and economic union. Unionism, as doctrine and practice appears to have lost its way, unable to adjust to devolution. Brexit has added to the strains because membership of the European Union provided an external support system for the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet the UK cannot easily fall apart into its constituent nations, and public opinion still appears largely content with the idea of a plurinational union. There is no definitive answer to the question of state and nation within the United Kingdom.

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Constitutional Jurisprudence on Federalism and Devolution in UK and Canada

Cited by 17 publications

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Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom

Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom

Scotland’s Constitutional Odyssey

State and Nation in the United Kingdom

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