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    <title>Comparing devolved governance</title>
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    <namePart>Birrell, Derek.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Palgrave Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xi, 277 p. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Powers and resources -- Executive government -- Parliament and assemblies and their legislative role -- Scrutiny role of parliament and the assemblies -- The civil service and central administrations -- Quangos and delegated governance -- Local government -- Intergovernmental and external relations.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Derek Birrell.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Decentralization in government</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Central-local government relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Decentralization in government</topic>
    <geographic>Scotland</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Decentralization in government</topic>
    <geographic>Wales</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Decentralization in government</topic>
    <geographic>Northern Ireland</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1945-</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">JN329.D43 B56 2012</classification>
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