‘Making it Happen’ in Public Service: Devolution in Wales as a case study Stephen Prosser, Michael Connolly, Rod Hough and Kathryn Potter Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk 250 pages £17.95/$34.90 1845400607 (pbk.) May 2006

This book examines the change management strategies and processes employed to ensure that the Labour Government’s commitment to devolution became a reality in Wales. It is an account of constitutional, cultural, organizational and human change set within a dynamic political context and is based on unprecedented research access to devolution papers and the politicians and civil servants concerned with the changes.

"A celebration of administrative empiricism, the artful way in which the UK civil service gets on with building new arms, without apparently much (conceptual) thought."  Public

Stephen Prosser is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Development at the University of Glamorgan.