Devolution is secondary: What drives Scottish secondary legislation?
The reopening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 marked a great opportunity to create a modern government connected to the people. In spite of this, work on responsiveness and the functioning of policy‐making in Scotland since devolution has not been as extensive as it could be. This is certainly tr...
| Published in: | Public Administration Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 517 - 530 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2021
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