Scotland's ten tomorrows
Subtitle: the devolution crisis - and how to fix it
By: edited by Bill Jamieson
Contributors: Jamieson, Bill
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Decentralization in government -- Scotland; Scotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "From the controversial Parliament building to MSPs' pay and expenses, devolution has sharply divided the country. Has life in Scotland really improved? Or did devolution set in motion a runaway gravy train for government and the bureaucracy?" "Despite record public spending in Scotland, there are huge problems in health, education, public welfare, economic policy, arts and culture and wellbeing." "The structural problems that the Barnett Formula on Scotland's share of UK spending was meant to tackle have grown worse. Yet government spending as a proportion of the economy in Scotland is now 52 per cent - one of the highest figures in the industrialized world."

"Here ten of Scotland's most prominent writers and commentators set out what has gone wrong - free from government gobbledygook and spin - and present bold and positive ideas to take Scotland forward."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction: how devolution became the Emperor's new clothes / Bill Jamieson; title: Change is the best option for the status quo / Allan Massie; title: Scotland the victim-nation / Michael Fry; title: Devolution: a deepening economic policy failure / George Kerevan; title: How global forces with compel economic change / Donald MacKay; title: Devolved Scotland: Britain's Potemkin village / Gerald Warner; title: Looking to a new political alignment / Alan Cochrane; title: A liberal state to set Scotland free / Tom Miers; title: A view from inside: the failure of devolution / Brian Monteith; title: A tale of three Scotlands / Fraser Nelson; title: Scotland's NHS: great noise, but where's the motor? / Gillian Bowditch