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Cultural Perspectives in the National Assembly for Wales: Identifying Path-dependency, Critical Moments and Critical Junctures

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This article analyses perceptions of institutional culture in the National Assembly for Wales (NAW) between 2001 and 2002. Assembly Members (AMs) were posed a number of questions concerning the NAW's institutional culture during the first term of devolution for Wales. The article explores the extent to which AMs considered that the NAW embodied the same values and cultural perspectives as Whitehall/Westminster and whether a 'path-dependency' existed that related to pre-devolution perspectives. The investigation provides insight into changes taking place in the NAW and identifies AMs' perceptions of their roles in the new constitutional arrangements. To investigate these issues, the author has undertaken an empirical study and uses an orientation framework and historical institutionalism to analyse the data and assess the existence of general, as well as sub-cultural perspectives in the NAW.

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 April 2007

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  • Contemporary Wales is at the forefront of research into economic, political and social sciences relating to Wales. It contains both academic and practitioner-based articles, annual economic and legal reviews, and book reviews. Its interdisciplinary content drawing on current research on Wales makes the journal essential reading for students and researchers across a range of subject areas, including political and social policy, history, law, media and languages. Contemporary Wales has published articles in English and in Welsh.

    Mae Contemporary Wales wedi’i gyhoeddi’n gan Wasg Prifysgol Cymru fel llwyfan ar gyfer ymchwil blaengar ar Gymru o safbwynt y gwyddorau economaidd, gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol. Mae'n cynnwys cyfuniad o erthyglau gan academyddion ac ymarferwyr, adolygiadau economaidd a chyfreithiol blynyddol, ac adolygiadau o gyhoeddiadau yn y maes. Mae natur rhyngddisgyblaethol y cynnwys sy'n seliedig ar yr ymchwil diweddaraf yn golygu bod y cyfnodolyn yn hanfodol i wleidyddion, gwneuthurwyr polisi, y cyfryngau, gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, llywodraeth leol yn ogystal â fyfyrwyr ac ymchwilwyr mewn ystod eang o feysydd gan gynnwys polisi gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol, hanes, y gyfraith, y cyfryngau a ieithoedd. Mae Contemporary Wales wedi cyhoeddi erthyglau yn y Gymraeg a’r Saesneg.

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