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Who said devolution has been a 'disaster'?
25th November 2020
Significant social change as part of the post 1997 constitutional reforms
The success or otherwise of devolution, i.e. assessing and evaluating the impact of transferring power to a lower body, is a key topic in A Level Politics.
A couple of arguments in favour of devolution might be:
(i) Democracy has been enhanced within the UK since government is much more region sensitive:, e.g. the congestion charge in London;
(ii) On a separate but related note, the new legislatures act as policy laboratories - e.g. the Scottish-first smoking ban.
If we want a key, and arguably, very persuasive, policy example that fits with both of these arguments, then we can consider the fact that today Scotland has made worldwide headlines (you can read news organisations from the USA, to South Africa, to Australia covering this story) as the first country in history to pass a law with regards to tackling period poverty.
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