Governing Scotland
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Governing Scotland

The Invention of Administrative Devolution

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eBook - PDF

Governing Scotland

The Invention of Administrative Devolution

About this book

Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasised the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 The Origins of the Scottish Central Administration
  7. 3 Settling Down to Business
  8. 4 Educational Administration
  9. 5 Administering Agriculture, Health and the Highlands and Islands
  10. 6 MacDonnell, the Boards and the 1928 Act
  11. 7 The Reorganisation Debate and Gilmour
  12. 8 The Origins and Development of the Goschen formula
  13. 9 Scottish Office Ministers
  14. 10 Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index