Constitutional Futures

Robert Hazell is Professor of Government and the Constitution and Director of the Constitution Unit in the School of Public Policy, University College, London

• List of Contributors ; Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Shape of Things to Come: What Will the UK Constitution Look Like in the Early 21st Century? ; 3. A Rolling Programme of Devolution: Slippery Slope or Safeguard of the Union? ; 4. British Constitutional Reform and the Relationship with Europe ; 5. Constitutionalism, Regulation and Review ; 6. Fragmentation in the Party and Political Systems ; 7. Westminster: Squeezed From Above and Below ; 8. Machinery of Government: Whitehall ; 9. Intergovernmental Relations in a Devolved United Kingdom: Making Devolution Work ; 10. The Environment and Constitutional Change ; 11. Case Study- Financing Devolution, the Centre Retains Control ; 12. Citizenship ; 13. The New Constitutional Settlement ; Further Reading ; Index

there are three mysteries about the transformation of the UK. What does the Prime Minister think he is doing? Why doesn't the British media hold constitutional reform to be important enough to demand an answer to this question? And why don't "the people" care? Any overview of the reforms now under way, such as Constitutional Futures, the aptly timed, keynote publication of the Constitution Unit, should be judged in the first instance on how well it addresses these puzzling questions.