Titlebook: Devolution and Governance; Wales Between Capaci Alistair Cole,Ian Stafford Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436719city; governance; Policy; British Politics; area studies

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Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

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ed out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda.978-1-137-43671-9

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01583-5ange. The chapter examines the core research question: are contemporary European states — subject to powerful and converging economic, ideational and institutional pressures — driven to enforce new forms of territorial convergence? Focussing on the case of Wales, the chapter introduces the material

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-45-1The chapter firstly explores the changing nature of the Welsh Government’s relationship with local and regional layers of governance and the transition from a relationship defined primarily by partnership and collaboration to a more explicit performance management approach and increased support for

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-45-1itorial politics within the United Kingdom and Europe. The chapter examines five key perspectives that emerge from the Welsh case study: the importance of understanding the historical evolution of territorial governance and political capacity; the key role of legitimising discourses in framing polit

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,‘Team Wales’:Narratives of Small Country Governance and Constructed Divergence,de and a half of devolution in Wales. The chapter examines in particular the discourse of ‘small country governance’ which embodied the positive construction of the new political institutions and provided a core focus for policy divergence. Cole and Stafford consider how this emerging discourse beca