Abstract
ABSTRACT A lack of inter-governmental relations has been seen as a serious challenge to the integrity of the UK after devolution. This article asks whether newly evolving multilevel political career patterns can make up for this deficit by providing new and meaningful institutional linkages between centre and periphery or whether they cement and expand the existent institutional schism? The empirical career analysis reveals patterns of alternative careers facilitating the emergence of distinct political classes at the centre and the peripheries. Career patterns and institutional structures are depicted as mutually reinforcing the dualistic character of British territorial politics and thus projecting the image of a divided rather than a united kingdom.
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