The Welsh Devolution Referendum
The Welsh Devolution Referendum
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威尔士权力下放公投
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9256.00084
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发表时间：
1999
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
B. Lewis
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作者：
R. Jones;B. Lewis
本文试图将 1997 年关于工党政府建立民选威尔士议会的计划的全民公投置于自 1979 年以来威尔士发展起来的权力下放辩论的背景下，当时威尔士选民以压倒性多数否决了大致相似的提案。作者认为，考虑到举行全民投票的迟来决定、威尔士政治格局造成的特殊困难，以及 1997 年大选之前没有真正尝试在这些提案背后达成广泛共识的事实，这些提案最终获得批准——尽管以微弱优势——这一事实对支持权力下放的人士来说代表着一项重大成就。
This article seeks to place the 1997 referendum on the Labour government's plans to establish an elected Welsh Assembly into the context of the debate on devolution as it has developed in Wales since 1979, when broadly similar proposals were overwhelmingly rejected by the Welsh electorate. The authors argue that given the belated decision to hold the referendum, the particular difficulties created by the Welsh political landscape, and the fact that there was no real attempt to develop a broad-based consensus behind the proposals before the 1997 general election, the fact that the proposals were finally approved -albeit by the narrowest of margins - represents a substantial achievement for the pro-devolutionists.