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Strengthening local health systems and governance for Universal Health Coverage: experiences and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic response in Quezon City, Philippines
Esperanza Anita Escano-Arias and others
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 40, Issue 3, April 2025, Pages 436–442, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf002
Published: 13 January 2025
... government health systems strengthening Universal Health Coverage COVID-19 pandemic pandemic preparedness devolution health security Key messages The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led the Quezon City local government in the Philippines to mount a response that strengthened its local...
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The asymmetric power model 20 years on
David Marsh and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 658–685, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae026
Published: 13 September 2024
... challenges—devolution, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and Brexit—each of which reveal the on-going salience of the APM. Finally, we present a revised version of the APM, presenting a contemporary conceptual framing of UK politics to illustrate why, over the last two decades, inequality...
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The challenge of devolved English governance and the rise of political spatial inequality
Sam Warner and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 735–764, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae024
Published: 06 August 2024
... and Giovannini, 2017 : 7–8; Lee, 2017 ). It entrenched the existing model in which the economic growth argument for devolution was elevated above other concerns ( Sandford, 2018 ). © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society. 2024 This is an Open Access article...
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An unstable Union? The Conservative Party, the British Political Tradition, and devolution in Scotland and Wales 2010–23
Paul Anderson and Coree Brown Swan
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 790–815, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae020
Published: 06 August 2024
... posed to the UK, and in Wales, where the devolution model seemed to be forever playing catch-up with Scotland. Further reform, however, was not rooted in a particular commitment to devolution and followed a similar ad hoc pattern as previous governments, ‘shaped by the controlling instincts...
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‘Border Country’: health law in a devolved UK
John Harrington and Abbie-Rose Hampton
Medical Law Review, Volume 32, Issue 2, Spring 2024, Pages 229–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwae011
Published: 11 April 2024
...-use, please contact [email protected] Abstract How are we to understand and research health law under devolution in the UK? Building on work in law and geography, we argue that the figure of the border is key to the production and implementation of devolved health law and the variety...
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How (Not) to Break Up: Constituent Power and Alternative Pathways to Scottish Independence
Raffael N Fasel and Shona Wilson Stark
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 1–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqad022
Published: 31 October 2023
... constituent power devolution A familiar spectre is haunting the UK—the spectre of Scottish independence. In June 2022, the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that a second independence referendum (Indyref 2) was to take place on 19 October 2023. 1 As was the case in the run-up...
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Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament
James D Griffiths and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 285–304, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad004
Published: 31 March 2023
... to account do not broaden this base of support, a framing that the Senedd should be comparable in size to legislatures in Scotland and Northern Ireland does have a positive effect on voters with more median constitutional preferences. Accountability Devolution Legislative Size Nationalism Survey...
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Devolution and the Prevent Strategy in Scotland: Constitutional Politics and the Path of Scottish P/CVE
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 350–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad007
Published: 21 March 2023
... government was able to leverage the devolution settlement and associated constitutional conventions to implement a modest P/CVE program—dropping some components of the English and Welsh Prevent programs entirely. The paper contributes to studies on British constitutional conventions and the nature of inter...
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‘We Can’t Afford to be a Branch Office’: The Territorial Dynamics of the British Labour Party, 2015–2019
Coree Brown Swan and Michael Kenny
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 109–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac022
Published: 28 October 2022
... Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Despite having delivered devolution, the British Labour Party has faced significant challenges...
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Constitutional Reform by Legal Transplantation: The United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
Thomas Horsley
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 1143–1169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac018
Published: 16 September 2022
... constitution, this article concludes that the UKIMA effects a qualitative change to established patterns of judicial review through its co-opting of courts as agents to secure the foundations of the newly recast material constitution. constitutional law constitutional theory devolution comparative law...
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Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election
Jac M Larner and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 857–878, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac012
Published: 10 May 2022
.... But such competence-related messaging was once again situated within the party’s longstanding ideological and national appeals to Welsh symbols, branding and values that it has adopted so comfortably since the earliest years of devolution ( Wyn Jones et al., 2002 ). In this regard, and at the inflexion point of Covid...
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Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how it can be fixed
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Paul Collier and others
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2021, Pages 637–649, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grab035
Published: 08 November 2021
... unsustainable. capitalism globalization devolution communities markets financial systems Abstract The distinguished contributors to this issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy were asked to address the question of what has gone wrong with capitalism, what needs to change, and how can...
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Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Territorial Role of Backbench MPs with Constituencies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1992–2019
Jack Sheldon
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 791–812, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab048
Published: 13 September 2021
...Jack Sheldon Examples: Jonathan Edwards (Plaid Cymru; Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Wales): We believe that unfinished business with the devolution settlement remains, which will come as no surprise to colleagues. Polls in Wales agree with us that criminal justice and policing should...
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Beyond remain vs. leave: understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands
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Alex de Ruyter and others
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 14, Issue 3, November 2021, Pages 507–527, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsab019
Published: 26 August 2021
... revealed a high degree of suspicion amongst leavers of the motives of academics. 5 [email protected] Brexit populism spatial governance devolution Abstract This article explores the link between populism and governance arrangements. Adopting a comparative approach between the West...
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Do Constitutional Preferences Affect Citizens’ Representational Choices? Evidence from the Devolved UK
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Alan Convery and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 162–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab044
Published: 01 August 2021
... delegated to Scottish political institutions. We conclude by considering the implications for efforts to further devolve powers to the devolved legislatures in the UK. Parliaments Devolution Scotland National Identity UK Politics Multi-level Governance Although the UK has always been best understood...
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Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’
Jonathan Tonge and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 522–541, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab020
Published: 14 July 2021
... Partisanship Devolution Multi-level Government Adulthood Recent years have seen the first reforms of the age of enfranchisement since the 1969 Representation of the People Act lowered the voting age to 18 for all elections in the UK. The introduction of ‘Votes-at-16’ for non-Westminster elections...
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Exploring Responses to the Collapse of Devolution in Northern Ireland 2017–2020 through the Lens of Multi-Level Governance
Deirdre Heenan and Derek Birrell
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 596–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab013
Published: 19 March 2021
... of the Assembly ( Sargeant and Rutter, 2019 , p. 35). In terms of substantive policy interventions on devolved functions, the UK Government and Parliament responses were minimalist and limited to emergencies, financial necessity or strong political pressure. Since the establishment of devolution in 1999...
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‘We’re not delivering government’s agenda’: The Community Organisers Programme in England
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Robert Fisher
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 51, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 617–635, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa175
Published: 03 December 2020
... neoliberalism and state devolution with the experiences of fifteen subjects interviewed in 2014 and 2015. The three cohorts included (i) five recruited, salaried and trained community organisers, (ii) five administrative staff from key social service organisations and government and (iii) five external...
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Devolution of competition policy under the Scotland Act 2016 after Brexit: straining at the edges of the current settlement?
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Arianna Andreangeli
Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 54–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnaa038
Published: 26 July 2020
...Arianna Andreangeli competition law state aid. devolution Scotland merger control K20 K21 Email: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2020 This article...
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A case study of new approaches to address health inequalities: Due North five years on
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Paul W Johnstone
British Medical Bulletin, Volume 132, Issue 1, December 2019, Pages 17–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldz037
Published: 27 December 2019
... of the challenge. As a result, Public Health England commissioned the Due North Report which outlined new approaches in tackling health inequalities. This second paper outlines what has been learnt in five years as a case study. This includes influencing devolution deals and new elected city mayors, planning...
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