The Impact of Devolution in Wales

Jane Williams

Description

This volume reflects on two decades of Welsh devolution, and contributes to the debate on its significance and future course. Drawing on previously unpublished interviews undertaken by the late Professor Michael Sullivan with key protagonists in Welsh devolution, and with expert analysis from leading researchers in different disciplines and fields of policy, the book examines what has been described as the emergence through devolution of a ‘Welsh stripe’ in social democracy. While the volume editors conclude this epithet, coined by Professor Sullivan, is apt, this collection of essays also presents a complex, multi-faceted picture of the drivers of policy, of continuity from the pre-devolution era, as well as change driven by factors within and without Wales. A mixed picture emerges, featuring variously (and in various combinations of) boldness of ambition, distinctive ideological positioning, homegrown priority-setting, the frustrations of the devolution settlement, and adverse (arguably unfair) international comparisons.

Tables and illustrations
About the Contributors
Foreword by Prys Morgan
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and terms
Editors’ Introduction
Aled Eirug and Jane Williams
Chapter One The Sullivan Dialogues
Aled Eirug
Chapter Two Iechyd Da? Devolution and health care
Ceri J. Phillips
Chapter Three Education in Wales since Devolution
David Egan
Chapter Four Economic Development in Wales: Evolution and Revolution
Gareth Davies
Chapter Five Welsh Devolution and the Quest for Sustainable Development: Into a New Era
Terry Marsden
Chapter Six Civil Society, Equalities and Inclusion
Elin Royles and Paul Chaney
Chapter Seven Threads in Policy on Children and Young People: Rights, Welfare and Well-being
Jane Williams
Chapter Eight Towards a million speakers? Welsh language policy post-devolution
Huw Lewis and Elin Royles
Chapter Nine Wales and the World
Geraint Talfan-Davies

Sujets

• Political Science
• World
• European
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786838872
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

The Impact of
Devolution
in Wales
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Devolution
in Wales
Social Democracy
with a Welsh Stripe?
Edited by
Jane Williams
& Aled Eirug
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
2022
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ISBN 978-1-78683-886-5
eISBN 978-1-78683-887-2
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Mike Sullivan and Rhodri Morgan
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Tables and Illustrations ix
About the Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xv
Foreword by Prys Morgan xvii
Abbreviationsxxi
Chronology of Welsh Devolutionxxiii
Editors’ Introductionxxv
Aled Eirug and Jane Williams
Chapter 1: Te Sullivan Dialogues 1
Aled Eirug
Chapter 2: Iechyd Da? Devolution and Healthcare 35
Ceri J. Phillips
Chapter 3: Education in Wales since Devolution 61
David Egan
Chapter 4: Economic Development in Wales: Evolution 95
and Revolution
Gareth Davies
Chapter 5: Welsh Devolution and the Quest for Sustainable 119
Development: Into a New Era
Terry Marsden
Chapter 6: Civil Society, Equalities and Inclusion 151
Elin Royles and Paul Chaney
Chapter 7: Treads in Policy on Children and Young People: 179
Rights and Well-being
Jane Williams
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Policy Post-devolution
Huw Lewis and Elin Royles
Chapter 9: Wales and the World 235
Geraint Talfan Davies
Index 265
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2.1 Comparison of Welsh health surveys, 2003 and 2015 51
4.1 Gross Value added by UK nation, 1997–2017 102
6.1 Constitutional preferences in Wales, 1997–2011 167
6.2 eferences in Wales, 2014–20 167
8.1 Summary of strategic themes, targets and aims included 212
in Cymraeg 2050
8.2 Te main actors involved in Welsh language revitalisation 222
governance
9.1 Welsh exports 2013–2018 259
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Paul Chaney is co-director of Wales Institute of Social and Economic
Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), and professor of policy and
politics at Cardif University School of Social Sciences. He has served
on various government advisory bodies including the UK Government
steering group on the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He
has authored or contributed to ten books and written over sixty papers
in leading peer-reviewed journals. His research and teaching interests
include territorial politics, public policy-making, civil society, and
equality and human rights.
Gareth Davies is a professor in Swansea University’s School of
Management, specialising in innovation management and regional
economic development. He worked on the Welsh Government’s Knowledge
Economy Nexus review of academic-industrial links and on projects
around the world to develop science park and technology transfer
models. He is experienced in supporting deployment of disruptive
technologies for partners from micro-businesses to multinationals in multiple
sectors and conducted appraisal work for the Swansea Bay City Region
Deal. He is a member of the All-Wales Intensive Learning Academy for
Innovation in Health and Social Care, and of a regional collaboration
for health.
David Egan is emeritus professor of education at Cardif Metropolitan
University. In his early career he was a history teacher and researcher.
From 1993 to 2000 he was head of the Cardif School of Education at
Cardif Metropolitan University. From 2005 to 2008 he served as special
adviser for education to the Welsh Government frst minister and the
Cabinet. In a further secondment to the Welsh government he is leading
the development of a National Strategy for Educational Research and
Enquiry. His research interests and publications range widely across the
feld of Welsh educational history, policy and practice.
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Aled Eirug is a writer and broadcaster with over twenty-fve years’
experience as a journalist and broadcast executive. Formerly head of news and
current afairs for BBC Wales and constitutional adviser to the National
Assembly for Wales, he has served also as chair of the Welsh Refugee
Council, member of the British Council board and member of Ofcom’s
content board. He has published two books, including one on opposition
to the Great War. He was a founding member of the Morgan Academy,
the policy think tank established by Professor Mike Sullivan in Rhodri
Morgan’s memory. He is a visiting research fellow at Cardif University.
Huw Lewis is senior lecturer in politics at the Department of
International Politics at Aberystwyth University. His research and
teaching interests include language policy and planning, multiculturalism,
nationalism and contemporary Welsh and UK politics. He coordinated
the Revitalise research network, bringing together an international group
of academics and practitioners to consider the implications of major
instances of contemporary social change for our understanding on how
language revitalisation eforts should be designed and implemented. He
has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on language policy
and is co-author and co-editor of books on geographies of language and
language revitalisation.
Ceri J. Phillips is emeritus professor of health economics at Swansea
University, an honorary professor in Cardif University School of
Medicine and vice-chair of Cardif and Vale University Health Board.
He has been an independent board member of Health Education and
Improvement Wales and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health
Board, head of the College of Human and Health Sciences at Swansea
University, chair of the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group and
member of the Bevan Commission. He has authored over 220 publications,
advised Welsh and UK governments, and served on reviews, committees
and evaluations for multiple organisations.
Terry Marsden is emeritus professor of environmental policy and
planning at Cardif University. He has served as head of the School of City
and Regional Planning, director of the University Research Institute,
Sustainable Places and as an external advisor on rural development,
land management and agri-food policies to the Welsh Assembly, Senedd
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and Welsh Afairs UK parliamentary committee. He led the Marsden
Report emerging from the Welsh Government’s review of Welsh
designated landscapes which he chaired. He is chair of the Alliance for Welsh
Designated Landscapes, and writes on rural development and sustainable
development issues.
Elin Royles is senior lecturer at the Department of International Politics,
Aberystwyth University, and is a member of the Centre for Welsh
Politics and Society. Her research and teaching are on territorial
politics and sub-state governance. She has published on diferent areas of
Welsh public policy post-devolution, particularly civil society, regional
and minority language policy and planning, the international relations of
sub-state governments and inter-governmental relations. She is involved
in inter-disciplinary research grants on EU Horizon 2020-funded
IMAJINE on Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe (EU
Horizon 2020), and on Civil Stratifcation and Civil Repair (WISERD,
ESRC).
Geraint Talfan Davies is a writer and broadcaster who has had a long
involvement with public policy and the arts in Wales. He is chair of Te
Cyfarthfa Foundation, aiming to develop a national centre for industrial
heritage at Merthyr Tydfl. He was controller of BBC Wales from 1990
until 2000. He is a co-founder of the Institute of Welsh Afairs and was
its chairman from 1992 until 2014. He chaired Welsh National Opera,
the Arts Council of Wales and Cardif Bay Arts Trust, and was chair of
Wales for Europe from 2016 until 2020. His memoirA, t Arm’s Length,
was published in 2008.
Jane Williams is professor at Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law,
Swansea University. Formerly a practising barrister, UK and Welsh
Government legal adviser and professional trainer, she was married to the
late Professor Mike Sullivan and worked with him to produce the Wales
Journal of Law and Public Policy (2001–6) and to advocate for legislation
on the rights of the child in Wales. She is co-founder of the Observatory
on Human Rights of Children, based at Swansea and Bangor universities.
Her academic publications are in the felds of devolution, child law and
children’s rights.
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his volume’s origin lies in a commitment made by the late Professor T Mike Sullivan to write an academically grounded analysis to
accompany Rhodri Morgan’s personal memoir of hi