Has devolution made a difference? : the state of the nations 2004

This book represents the fruits of a four-year collaboration between top constitutional lawyers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and leading researchers in UCL's Constitution Unit.

The book opens with detailed studies of law making in the period 1999-2004 in the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, and how they interact with Westminster.

Later contributions look at aspects of legislative partnership in the light of the UK's strongly asymmetric devolutionary development, and also explain the unexpected impact of devolution on the courts.

Further chapters examine the interplay of continuity and change in political, administrative and legal practice, and the competing pressures for convergence and divergence between the different parliaments and assemblies.