Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development

Jonathan Bradbury is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University. His research interests focus on devolution and regional governance. He is the founding joint convenor of the UK Political Studies Association specialist group on British and Comparative Territorial Politics.

• 1. Introduction Jonathan Bradbury Part 1: Devolution in the UK 2. Devolution in Scotland: change and continuity Neil McGarvey 3. Devolution in Wales: an unfolding process Jonathan Bradbury 4. Northern Ireland: St Andrews - the long Good Friday Agreement Rick Wilford Part 2: Regionalism in England 5. Institutional Capacity in the English regions Graham Pearce 6. Co-ordinating governance in the South East mega-region: Towards joined-up thinking? Peter John, Steve Musson and Adam Tickell 7. Constrained discretion and English regional governance: the case of Yorkshire and the Humber Simon Lee Part 3: Regional Development in the UK 8. Devolution and development: territorial justice and the north-south divide Kevin Morgan 9. Reconstructing regional development and planning in Scotland and Wales Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel 10. Regional development and regional spatial strategies in England Peter Roberts 11. Conclusion: UK regional capacity in comparative perspective Jonathan Bradbury and Patrick Le Galés