List of Contributors
John Curtice is Professor of Politics and Director of the Social
Statistics Laboratory at Strathclyde University and Deputy Director of
the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends. He has written
widely on public attitudes and voting behaviour in the wake of devolution
and is co-editor of New Scotland, New Society? (Polygon, 2002).
Oonagh Gay is currently on secondment to the Constitution Unit
from the House of Commons Library, where she is a specialist in constitutional
affairs. She is responsible for the Unit's project on Devolution at Westminster,
funded by Leverhulme.
Scott Greer is Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, UCL,
and lead researcher on the Devolution and Health project. A political scientist
who has researched territorial politics and health in Spain, the United
States, France and the UK, he looks at the four health systems of the UK
to see what devolution has done to politics, and what the conduct of health
policy tells us about them.
Robert Hazell is the Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor
of Government and the Constitution in the School of Public Policy, University
College London. Originally a barrister, he spent most of his working life
at the Home Office. He left Whitehall to become director of the Nuffield
Foundation and founded the Constitution Unit in 1995. He is the director
of a five year research programme into the Dynamics of Devolution, funded
by the Leverhulme Trust.
Peter Hetherington is The Guardian's Regional Affairs
Editor and chairs the Commission on Local Governance, which recently suggested
a raft of measures to revive local democracy and put town and county halls
on a sounder constitutional footing. He helps produce the quarterly ESRC-funded
'Monitoring the English Regions' reports for the Constitution Unit.
Dan Hough is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham.
His recent publications include The Fall and Rise of the PDS in Eastern
Germany, 1989-2000 (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2002)
and “The Electoral Cycle and Multi-Level Voting in Germany” (with Charlie
Jeffery), in Stephen Padgett und Thomas Poguntke (Hrsg.) Continuity
and Change in German Politics: Beyond the Politics of Centrality (London:
Frank Cass, 2001), pp. 73-98.
Charlie Jeffery is Director of the ESRC’s Devolution and Constitutional
Change Programme and Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies
at the University of Birmingham. His most recent publications include Germany’s
European Diplomacy: Shaping the Regional Milieu (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2000, with Simon Bulmer and William E. Paterson), “Regionalwahlen
in Mehr-Ebenen-Systemen” (with Dan Hough), in Thomas Conzelmann und Michele
Knodt (Hrsg.) Regionales Europa, europäisierte Regionen: Mannheimer
Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main:
Campus Verlag, Band 6, 2002), pp.213-237 and ‘Party Politics and Territorial
Representation in the Federal Republic of Germany’, in West European
Politics, 22, 1999, pp. 130-166.
James Mitchell is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University
and heads the Scottish Monitoring team. He is the author of numerous book
and articles on Scottish and UK politics and devolution.
John Osmond is Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, a
policy think tank based in Cardiff. He is a former political journalist
and television producer and has written widely on Welsh politics and devolution.
His most recent books are Welsh Europeans (Seren, 1997); The
National Assembly Agenda (Editor, 1998); and Building a Civic Culture:
Institutional Change, Policy Development, and Political Dynamics in the
National Assembly for Wales (co-editor with J. Barry Jones, 2001) both
published by the Institute.
Rachel Simeon is a Senior Policy Analyst with the government
of Ontario, Canada, specialising in intergovernmental social policy. She
recently completed a master’s degree in public policy at University College
London.
John Tomaney works in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development
Studies at Newcastle University. His research interests include the political
economy of regional development and the politics of devolution in England.
Among his recent publications is England: The State of the Regions,
edited with John Mawson (Bristol: Policy Press, 2002).
Alan Trench is a Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit,
working on issues of devolution and intergovernmental relations in the
United Kingdom. A solicitor by profession, he has been specialist adviser
to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution for their inquiry
into Devolution: Inter-Institutional Relations in the United Kingdom.
Rick Wilford is a Professor of Politics at Queen's University
Belfast. He has written extensively on both devolution and politics in
Northern Ireland. His most recent works include articles on public opinion
and devolution in 'Government and Opposition' and 'Regional and Federal
Studies' and he was contributing editor of 'Aspects of the Belfast Agreement'
(OUP: 2001). He is currently researching the operation of the Northern
Ireland Assembly between 1998 and 2002.
Robin Wilson is Director of the Belfast-based think tank Democratic
Dialogue, co-leader with Professor Rick Wilford of the Northern Ireland
devolution monitoring project team and an honorary senior research fellow
of the Constitution Unit. He is a member of the board of the Institute
of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen's University
Belfast, of the advisory council of the Dublin-based think tank TASC, and
of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.
