Review: The Challenge of Devolution

The flurry of publications which have emerged from the first two years of the Scottish Parliament have to be judged by two criteria. Are they of value in providing some historical record of a seminal period and do they go beyond this and provide some framework for the ongoing analysis of Scottish politics? This book has elements of the latter but could have been more coherent with some pruning and some additions. It inevitably has the faults of a conference-outcome publication.