The Impact of Devolution in Wales

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 Drawing on previously unpublished interviews undertaken by the late Professor Michael Sullivan with key protagonists in Welsh devolution, and with expert analysis from leading researchers in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: 9781786838889
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Impact of
Devolution
in Wales
The Impact of
Devolution
in Wales
Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe?
Edited by Jane Williams & Aled Eirug
© The Contributors, 2022
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Dedicated to the memory of Mike Sullivan and Rhodri Morgan
CONTENTS
Tables and Illustrations
About the Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Foreword by Prys Morgan
Abbreviations
Chronology of Welsh Devolution
Editors’ Introduction Aled Eirug and Jane Williams
Chapter 1: The Sullivan Dialogues Aled Eirug
Chapter 2: Iechyd Da? Devolution and Healthcare Ceri J. Phillips
Chapter 3: Education in Wales since Devolution David Egan
Chapter 4: Economic Development in Wales: Evolution and Revolution Gareth Davies
Chapter 5: Welsh Devolution and the Quest for Sustainable Development: Into a New Era Terry Marsden
Chapter 6: Civil Society, Equalities and Inclusion Elin Royles and Paul Chaney
Chapter 7: Threads in Policy on Children and Young People: Rights and Well-being Jane Williams
Chapter 8: Towards a Million Speakers? Welsh Language Policy Post-devolution Huw Lewis and Elin Royles
Chapter 9: Wales and the World Geraint Talfan Davies
Notes
TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
2.1 Comparison of Welsh health surveys, 2003 and 2015
4.1 Gross Value added by UK nation, 1997–2017
6.1 Constitutional preferences in Wales, 1997–2011
6.2 Constitutional preferences in Wales, 2014–20
8.1 Summary of strategic themes, targets and aims included in Cymraeg 2050
8.2 The main actors involved in Welsh language revitalisation governance
9.1 Welsh exports 2013–2018
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Chaney is co-director of Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), and professor of policy and politics at Cardiff 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 Cardiff Metropolitan University. In his early career he was a history teacher and researcher. From 1993 to 2000 he was head of the Cardiff School of Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University. From 2005 to 2008 he served as special adviser for education to the Welsh Government first 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 field of Welsh educational history, policy and practice.
Aled Eirug is a writer and broadcaster with over twenty-five years’ experience as a journalist and broadcast executive. Formerly head of news and current affairs 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 Cardiff 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 efforts 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 Cardiff University School of Medicine and vice-chair of Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 and Welsh Affairs 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 different 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 Stratification 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 The Cyfarthfa Foundation, aiming to develop a national centre for industrial heritage at Merthyr Tydfil. He was controller of BBC Wales from 1990 until 2000. He is a co-founder of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and was its chairman from 1992 until 2014. He chaired Welsh National Opera, the Arts Council of Wales and Cardiff Bay Arts Trust, and was chair of Wales for Europe from 2016 until 2020. His memoir, At 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 fields of devolution, child law and children’s rights.
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T his volume’s origin lies in a commitment made by the late Professor Mike Sullivan to write an academically grounded analysis to accompany Rhodri Morgan’s personal memoir of his political life in Wales and Westminster. Rhodri’s book was near completion at the time of his death in 2017 and the final editorial work was done by Mark Drakeford and Kevin Brennan, supported by the University of Wales Press.
Mike died the following year when work on his book remained at an early stage. This volume is not, of course, the book that Mike would have written. Instead, it contains a distillation from research he had conducted, together with contributions by scholars on the impact of Welsh devolved government in differen