Policy Review Section

Abstract

At the UK Political Studies Association Conference, held at the University of Glasgow on April 10–12 1996, the British Territorial Politics Group of the Association held a panel on New Labour and Devolution. Regional Studies subsequently invited panellists to submit their papers to the Policy Review Section in two parts. Part One in the last edition of the Section featured papers on the Labour Party's approach to devolution in Scotland. Part Two in this edition examines Labour's proposals for devolution in Wales and regional reform in England. In the first article, Russell Deacon of the School of International and Policy Studies, University of Wales Institute of Cardiff, discusses recent changes in the context of the devolution debate in Wales. He examines Labour Party policy development, concluding that it has been informed by a cautious approach and the compromises necessary to gain party unity. This means that policy amounts to a limited form of executive devolution. The issue of the electoral system f...