Pike A. (2002) Post-devolution blues? Economic development in the Anglo-Scottish Borders, Reg. Studies 36, 1069 …-1084. Uneven regional development on each side of the Anglo-Scottish Border has underpinned a 'post-devolution blues' in North East … 1990s. Rather than being a simplistic outcome of devolution, the 'post-devolution blues' are complicated by the particular …

England remains the 'gaping hole in the devolution settlement'. Debate about how England as a whole should engage with … devolution overlooks how regionally fractured England is in terms of culture, society and economic fortunes. The discourse of … government and regional campaigners - that devolution to the (northern) regions will bring an 'economic dividend'. Equally …

a component of the Labour government's devolution reforms which have set out some of the parameters for devolution to … the other English regions. The GLA's powers are strategic and were limited by Whitehall resistance to devolution. Mayor …

to undermine the functional basis of central government. Devolution has had a powerful impact on England at the centre …. Whitehall has come to terms with devolution unevenly, though with a growing appreciation that parts of Whitehall now have an …