Devolution

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Devolution enhancing democracy

  • more opportunities to participate

  • improved levels of representation - more proportional VS e.g. AMS in Scotland - parliament better reflects will of the people

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Devolution decentralising power

  • prevents concentration of power 

  • representative by dispersing power through regions 

  • acknowledges economic and social differences

  • encourages regional pride and identity 

  • reduces tensions between the regions

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limits of decentralisation through devolution

  • Westminster still holds power of foreign policy, defence and immigration

  • asymmetric devolution - differing powers across differing regions - creates division and resentment

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reasons for devolution in 80s and 90s

  • Scotland reject Thatcherism - different political stances

  • Poll tax pushed through in Scotland - factories, shipyards - symbols of Scotland’s industrial might closed - Westminster seeming alien - not putting scotland’s interest first