Review:
The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution
Edited by Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams, with a Foreword by Michael Sheen From Planet 244

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Nye Davies
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The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution
Edited by Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams, with a Foreword by Michael Sheen

Edited by Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams, with a foreword by Michael Sheen

Parthian, £10.00

The creation of the Welsh Assembly in 1999 was seen by many as an opportunity to create a new kind of politics. Devolution, it was believed, had the potential to revitalise democracy, while successive governments and politicians invoked a Wales of universalism, community and social justice. This was the ‘Welsh way’ of doing politics; more progressive than elsewhere and rooted in social democratic traditions that were seen as being natural to Wales.

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About the author

Nye Davies is a lecturer in politics at Cardiff University. His research focuses on the Labour Party, Wales and the role of ideas in politics. In 2020 he completed a PhD on the political thought of Aneurin Bevan.