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Governing Scotland: The Invention of Administrative Devolution

By James Mitchell

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0333743237, 9780333743232
LCC
JN1231 .M58 2003
Open Library ID
OL22566779M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
887 kB (907831 bytes)
Pages
272\272
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasized a professional bureaucracy with power centered on London and a Scottish view that emphasized the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in "administrative devolution."

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