Undignified and inefficient: Financial relations between London and Stormont
Mitchell, James (2006) Undignified and inefficient: Financial relations between London and Stormont. Contemporary British History, 20 (1). pp. 57-73. ISSN 1361-9462 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619460500444965)
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Between 1922 and 1972, London reputedly adopted a hands-off attitude to devolution in Northern Ireland. This was true of the formal machinery of government, what Bagehot referred to as the 'dignified' part of the constitution, but the 'efficient' part, most notably relations between civil servants, highlights a more complex picture of intergovernmental relations. Jim Bulpitt's notion of a 'dual polity' - acknowledging that alongside the dignified part of relations there was intense, ongoing relations between civil servants - is developed. It also argues that financial relations were marked by ad-hocery and inefficiency. The rhetoric of parity and leeway hid considerable diversity in public policy provision in Northern Ireland compared with the rest of the UK.
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Item type: Article ID code: 3984 Dates: DateEventMarch 2006PublishedSubjects: Political Science > Political science (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 23 Aug 2007 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 15:40 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3984