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Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasised the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.
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'Mitchell traces the shifting political currents beneath these debates with insight and care for detail...Mitchell's book is full of elegantly expressed detail and is a treat to read for students of modern Scottish history and politics. There is a delighlful couple of pages for Lord Fraser's attention on the building of St Andrew's House.' - Richard Parry, Scottish Affairs
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JAMES MITCHELL is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was previously Chair in Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Conservatives and the Union, Strategies for Self-Government and co-author of Politics and Public Policy in Scotland, How Scotland Votes and Scotland Decides: The Devolution Referendum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governing Scotland
Book Subtitle: The Invention of Administrative Devolution
Authors: James Mitchell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800045
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-74323-2Published: 25 November 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41012-5Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-80004-5Published: 25 November 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 259
Topics: British Politics, Political Science