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Sub-State Regionalism and the United Kingdom Jona

Sub-State Regionalism and the United Kingdom

Jonathan Bradbury defined "sub-state regionalism" as "the development of elected and indirectly regional political institutions" and further stated that this particular form of state organization and management has, over time, become "a key

dimension of constitutional change in many west European states." A functionalist perspective on political organization and relationships suggests that such relationships can be supranational, based on the emergence of cross-national economic and social pressures that tend to result in transcending the nation-state; the neo-functionalist paradigm, alternatively, holds that supranational regionalist is handicapped by weaknesses in and divisions over European identity.

Using a neo-functionalist perspective, Bradbury asserts that organizational changes in the political relations between such UK regions as Scotland and Wales and the UK central government (hereinafter called Whitehall) have arisen as authority and decision-making power have literally devolved from a central locus to the regions and their own governments. What such a process suggests, in the context of the European union (EU) in particular, is that the nation-state may be in a period of retreat.

The neo-functionalist view of such processes sees change as emanating from the unique characteristics of intra-state regions. Culture, therefore, matters and may be at work in shaping these new relationships. Bradbury suggests that this is very much the case with respect to Wales and Scotland, which despite their long years of inclusion within the UK, have retained distinct "national" or at least "regional" cultures, economic systems and patterns of development, and so forth.

Indeed, it can be argued that the UK "has always had a territorial dimension as a union of four nations/regions of England" to include Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in conjunction with "England" proper. Bogando...

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