JOHN BARTLE is Lecturer in Government and British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Essex. He has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies and British Elections and Parties Review. Recent publications include Political Communications: Why Labour Won the General Election of 1997, which he edited with Ivor Crewe and Brian Gosschalk. - DYLAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit based at University College London. His main responsibility is the management of the Nations and Regions programme, investigating devolution across the United Kingdom. He has published articles on the government of Wales, voting behaviour and devolution, together with Thatcherism and Territorial Politics, (1996).