... Parliament Sewel Convention Keating Michael university tuition fees Bulpitt Jim ‘neo unionism’ Keating Parnell Charles Stewart centrifugal tendencies Irish Home Rule Johnson Nevil Self-rule shared rule centralisation autonomy sovereignty The previous part of the book concluded...

... moves towards centralisation, there were forces at work that were slowly undermining the dual polity. This chapter explores centralisation and the politics of redistribution, as well as the restructuring of local government in Britain. dual polity France patronclientelism United States landed gentry...

... deals with the years immediately after the war, when the threat of socialism was paramount. Between 1945 and 1951, the party turned to devolution as a means of halting what they saw as the dangerous centralisation of power under the Labour governments. The victory at the general election of 1951 saw...

... in these developments, notably from a perspective inspired by ideas of material and technological agency, since technology and ‘software, we might say, writes mobility’ ( Hannam et al. 2006 : 5). Cyberspace is not power-free and never will be. My analysis has demonstrated that centralising tendencies entail power...

... catholic social movement Whyte J H John Christus Rex Society Fianna Fail De Valera Eamon Taoiseach Department of Economic Development report Geary R C Catholic social movement Social research infrastructure Social research centralisation State economic planning State social planning...

... Municipal Corporations Acts, which began the modernisation of the system. While the Poor Law Amendment Act is depicted as the beginning of centralisation, the Municipal Corporations Act, along with the enfranchisement after 1832 of the urban conurbations, suggested the possibility of a more decentralised...

... to adopt a different strategy: to protect the ‘hard shell’ of the member state, which also meant protecting the Länder. Meanwhile, opposition parties sought to counter the CSU's strategy by arguing that a regionalised Europe should mean strengthening the local level against Bavarian state centralisation...

... this chapter explores the longstanding tension in policy debates between the need for RECs to remain autonomous local forms of professional self-regulation and the desire on the part of government for centralisation of decisions to reduce the regulatory burden on specific applicants (e.g. pharmaceutical...