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Against Ad Hocery: UK Devolution and the Need for Consultation, Consensus and Consideration

Martin SmithDave Richards By Martin Smith and Dave Richards Filed Under: Devo, Featured Posted: April 16, 2015

Last month the Political and Constitutional Reforms Committee published a report on the future of devolution, in the wake of the Scottish Referendum. Here Dave Richards and Martin Smith pick the report apart and look at the implications for devolution in the UK. The newly published report on the Future of Devolution after the Scottish […]

Tagged With: devolution, DevoManc, independence, Scotland, Scottish referendum, Whitehall

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Police and Crime Commissioners – Lessons for devolution?

Francesca GainsVivien Lowndes By Francesca Gains and Vivien Lowndes Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: December 2, 2014

As Chancellor George Osborne finalises arrangements for devolved funding in the run-up to the Autumn Statement, Francesca Gains and Vivien Lowndes ask what can be learnt from the experience of Police and Crime Commissioners in their first two years. Two years ago, 41 directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners for England and Wales took office, […]

Tagged With: devolution, domestic violence, elected mayors, Electoral Commission, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, HMIC, Lord Stevens, National Audit Office, Paddy Tipping, police and crime commissioners, policing, Scottish referendum, Tony Lloyd, Yvette Cooper

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Polling Observatory Scottish referendum special: who is ahead, and how close is it?

Rob FordMark PickupWill JenningsChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Mark Pickup, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: September 12, 2014

This is a Scottish independence special of a regular series of posts that reports on the state of support for the parties in Westminster as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence the impact of the random variation each individual survey inevitably produces can be reduced. Most of the short […]

Tagged With: cameron, independence, No, opinion, polling, polls, Salmond, Scotland, Scottish referendum, voters, voting, Yes

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Polling Observatory 40: Treading water as Scotland’s big moment approaches

Rob FordMark PickupWill JenningsChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Mark Pickup, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: September 9, 2014

This is the fortieth in a series of posts by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings, Dr Mark Pickup and Prof Christopher Wlezien that report on the state of the parties in the UK as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence, the impact of the random variation that each individual survey inevitably produces can […]

Tagged With: conservatives, GE2015, general election, Labour, Liberal Democrats, polling observatory, Scotland, Scottish referendum, UKIP, voters, voting

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