The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Innovation and local growth depend on people who are willing to take chances, yet new research on Norway suggests that these risk-takers are disproportionately drawn to the capital and larger cities.
Caerphilly has long been an archetypal Labour seat: a post-industrial town imbued with the symbols and legacies of working-class labour politics. Yet this legacy has not been enough to prevent an historical defeat. Read Nye Davies on why the result in Caerphilly should act as a wake-up call to Welsh Labour, despite many in the party having warned against reading too much into the defeat.
This report shows that, despite devolution, Scotland’s territorial imbalances have widened, with power and prosperity increasingly concentrated around Edinburgh. It calls for a renewed debate on how to share power more evenly across Scotland’s diverse places.
We are delighted to open a new chapter for Regional & Federal Studies with the launch of our journal’s blog. This space will serve as a bridge between cutting-edge academic research and the wider community of policymakers, practitioners, and engaged publics who grapple with the challenges of territorial governance in today’s world.
This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK. It will consider how Germany's system of territorial governance has evolved, what challenges it now faces, and how this experience might inform ongoing debates about devolution, democracy, and reform in Scotland and the wider UK.
Scholarship on international sovereignty generally adopts a binary conception: territories either have international recognition, or they lack it and remain unrecognized entities within fragmented states.
Why do independence movements win overwhelming support nearly everywhere except in wealthy democracies of the global North?
Studies of UK social policies that fail to understand the multi-level competencies and policy differences of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland may contribute to creating a ‘scalar fallacy’ of a single and unified UK welfare state.
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