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- Title
Representing the Celtic Fringe: Devolution and Legislative Behavior in Scotland and Wales.
- Authors
Mishler, William; Mughan, Anthony
- Abstract
This study examines the social and political backgrounds, legislative role perceptions, and parliamentary activities of sixty-nine Scottish and Welsh members of the British House of Commons. Because legislative attitudes and behavior are linked to various structural features of parliament likely to be altered if proposals to devolve substantial powers to elected assemblies in Scotland and Wales are implemented, devolution would effect fundamental changes in current patterns of Scottish and Welsh representation. Comparisons of the backgrounds, attitudes, and behavior of those MPs who intend to leave parliament after devolution with those who hope to remain indicate that devolution would reduce support for nationalist issues in parliament, reinforce social class divisions, increase the concentration of Burkean-style representatives and party loyalists, expand the scope but reduce the extent of Scottish and Welsh participation in parliament, and provoke the exodus of the most active and talented Scottish and Welsh MPs.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; WALES; ELECTIONS; BEHAVIOR; INTERNATIONAL relations; LAND tenure; CONTRACT proposals; DIVISIONS (Organizational structure); NATIONALISM
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1978, Vol 3, Issue 3, p377
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439450