impact of devolution
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- Created on: 21-11-17 21:49
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1. Lowest level decision making and representation
- IMPACT: being able to make decisions locally is popular
- LIMIT: it has however not necessarily reduced apathy
2. Style of politics
- IMPACT: a new style of politics is said to exist
- more discussion based
- proportional representation also encourages consensus
- building does not imply governmentt and opposition to be uniquely adversarial (rounded, curved seating, facing middle)
- LIMIT: yet to impact/really transfer to UK politics
- PMQs are very different to First Ministers questions
3. Policy divergence in the union
- IMPACT: responding to the concerns of the electorate
- e.g. smoking in public places in Scotland, charging for plastic…
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