Assembly to Senedd: the Convention
and the Move Towards Legislative Powers
By John Osmond
January 2008
"The new Government of Wales Act 2006 shakes the
historic relationship between England and Wales to its roots
...The new legal situation in Wales means that we can now
talk of the Welsh Statute Book, Welsh Law, and of redeveloping
a body of laws which link us historically with the laws of
the princes - the Law of Hywel - one of Welsh culture's most
splendid creations, a powerful symbol of our unity and identity,
as powerful indeed as the Welsh language itself."
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Presiding Officer, National Assembly
Press
release
£10 (discount to IWA members) ISBN 978 1 904773 30
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Jan 08 |
Devolution a Decade On: IWA Response
to the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee Call
for Evidence
November 2007
Press
release
£10 (discount to IWA members) ISBN
978 1 904773 28 3 |
Nov 07 |
Building the Nation: Creating 'Internal
Political Solidarity' The 1979, 1997 and 2011 Referendums in
Wales
By John Osmond
March 2007
Examines the effects on the Welsh people of living through the
1979 and 1997 referendums, and looks ahead to the referendum
anticipated for 2011. Argues that in the decade following 1979,
political and economic forces came together to underpin the
emergence of a Welsh political nation.
£10 (discount
to IWA members) ISBN 1 904773 21 4 |
Mar 07 |
Gordon Brown, Bard of Britishness
By Tom Nairn, with contributions from Leighton Andrews, David
Melding, Vernon Bogdanor, Peter Stead, Charlotte Williams, David
Gow, Neal Ascherson and Kevin Morgan
Tom Nairn's highly polemical lead essay takes forward arguments
that he has developed since the 1970s. With responses from a
range of writers across the political spectrum.
Press
release
Price £15 (discount to IWA members) ISBN 1904773168 |
Oct 06 |
Achub ein Hiaith / Saving our Language
By Ken Hopkins
In this bilingual publication the author calls for the Welsh
Assembly Government to take urgent action to save the Welsh
language from accelerating towards inevitable extinction.
Press
release
Price £10 (discount to IWA members) ISBN 1904773109 |
Jun 06 |
Building Self-Reliance: Why Welsh
Conservatives should support the Richard Commission's Case for
Legislative Powers for the National Assembly
By Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
This pamphlet, from one of the Welsh Conservative Party's leading
thinkers, gives his views on the National Assembly and the Richard
Commission.
Price £5.00 (discount to IWA members) ISBN1871726360 |
Oct 04 |
Regional Stock Exchanges - a viable
option for Wales and other UK regions?
By Robert Huggins, Nia Emlyn-Jones and Jonathan Day (August
2003)
This report by Cardiff-based economic research group, Robert
Huggins Associates, calls for detailed studies to be made
into the creation of exchanges in Cardiff and other centres.
The report argues that an important contribution to raising
gdp in poorer regions could be made through the revival of
local money-raising institutions. Regional stock exchanges
that made it possible for local companies to raise finance
needed for expansion closer to home could help to close the
wealth gap between richer and poorer parts of the UK.
Download the report (PDF
59K)
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Aug 03 |
Divided we Fall: The Politics of
Geography in Wales
By John Osmond
This study analyses the divisions between the geo-political
regions of Wales and questions whether they are the most important
ones for Welsh policy-makers. Traditionally we have thought
of north and south. However, a more relevant east/west political
geography was revealed by the 1997 referendum. This dramatised
a divide that proved crucial in winning Objective 1 status for
west Wales and the Valleys. At the same time it revealed more
significant divides, in particular between the deprived and
more prosperous communities of the country that need urgent
attention if the integrity of Wales is to be sustained. However,
on constitutional matters, the study finds evidence to suggest
that there is more that unites than divides the regions of Wales.
Press
release
Price £10 (discount to IWA members) ISBN 1871726905 |
Dec 02 |
Developing a Partnership Approach
to Primary Legislation between Westminster and the National
Assembly
By Keith Patchett
The IWA Submission to the Welsh Affairs Committee Inquiry into
the Legislative Process as it affects Wales. ISBN 1871726891 |
Oct 02 |
The Future of Welsh Devolution
By John Osmond
The IWA's presentation to the Inquiry of the House of Lords
Select Committee on the Constitution into Inter-Institutional
Relations in the United Kingdom. ISBN 1871726840 |
Jun 02 |
A Reorganisation Too Far:
IWA Response to the National Assembly Consultation Document
Structural Change in the NHS in Wales
By Dr Gareth Jones
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Oct 01 |
Variable Geometry UK
By Rhodri Morgan AM
Based on an address given to the IWA and the Welsh Centre for
International Affairs on the eve of his election as First Secretary.
ISBN 1871726557
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Mar 00 |
Funding, Fairness, Farming and the
Future: How Wales could gain from the Operation of EU Agricultural
Support
By Professor Gareth Wyn Jones
An analysis of the way in which EU agri-environmental scheme
funds are administered in the UK and how it could be improved.
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Dec 99 |
Welsh Politics in the New Millennium
By John Osmond
A detailed analysis of the 1979 and 1997 devolution referendums
and the 6 May 1999 National Assembly election.
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Jul 99 |
Swansea Bay in the 21st Century
Edited by Karen Turner
Papers arising from a series of seminars in Swansea.
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Mar 99 |
The Hole at the Centre: IWA Response
to the Welsh Office Education and Training Action Plan for Wales
Consultation
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Jan 99 |
Broadcasting in Wales and the National
Assembly: IWA Evidence to the House of Commons Welsh Affairs
Select Committee
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Oct 98 |
| The Information Gap: IWA Response
to the Inquiry of the Neill Committee on Standards in Public
Life |
May 98 |
The Operation of the National Assembly:
Response of the IWA Constitution Working Party to the NAAG Consultation
Paper
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May 98 |
The Bonding of Wales: Housing the
Assembly
The IWA's contribution to the debate on the location of
the Assembly. |
Jan 98 |
Rural Wales and the Agricultural
Crisis
By a Panel of Rural Studies experts
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Jan 98 |
An Effective National Assembly: Key
Amendments to the Government of Wales Bill
By the IWA Constitution Working Party
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Jan 98 |
The Welsh Baccalaureate: Matching
International Standards (bilingual)
By John David & Colin Jenkins
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Oct 97 |
Why Snowdonia and North Wales Need
a New Tourism Strategy (bilingual)
By John Osmond, Professor Gareth Wyn Jones and David Williams
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Jul 97 |
