Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Richard Wyn Jones As readers of Nation.Cymru, you won’t need me to remind you – the result of Thursday’s Senedd election is very much in the balance. The polls suggest that it’s too close to call in t...

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Richard Wyn Jones The prospect of change and, specifically, the end of Labour hegemony has already led to an unprecedented amount of polling ahead of the Senedd election. We can expect more between no...

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Richard Wyn Jones I hate to have to admit it, but devolved election campaigns tend to be rather dull affairs. I’m not even convinced that they make much of a difference either. The overwhelming majori...

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Devolution to Scotland and Wales was a central plank of the New Labour government’s constitutional reform agenda. Yet despite Welsh devolution only being narrowly won at the 1997 referendum by the ...

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Editorial: As Plaid Cymru leads in polls ahead of Senedd elections in May, grassroots enthusiasm for one of its historic causes is growing

Welsh affairs committee says Bridgend jail is ‘not the right place’ to add inmates after deaths, violence and staff shortages

The planned expansion of HMP Parc should be paused while the Government reconsiders whether it can be achieved without jeopardising the safety of prisoners and staff, MPs say.

Shifts in identity, social change and the strain of long incumbency mean Ireland’s nearest neighbour is about to undergo a sea change

A major Cardiff University report challenges the notion that Wales is currently funded well above estimates of relative need – and warns the next government faces a tight, though uncertain, budget out...

In the old coalfields of south Wales, Britain’s center-left establishment faces being crushed by a nationalist left and populist right. POLITICO went to find out why.

A major Cardiff University report challenges the notion that Wales is currently funded well above estimates of relative need – and warns the next government faces a tight, though uncertain, budget out...

When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of t....

For fifty years, much of my life has been measured in eighty-minute increments. My heart has quickened in the mud of Dave Parade; the biting cold west wind at Stradey, and the deafening, soul-stirr…

Nye Davies Sport can often reflect a nation. In Wales, rugby has played a prominent role in the formation of a national consciousness, or at least a shared perception of what it means to be Welsh. Dai...

Nye Davies Sport can often reflect a nation. In Wales, rugby has played a prominent role in the formation of a national consciousness, or at least a shared perception of what it means to be Welsh. Dai...

My thesis explores the experiences of socialist women throughout south Wales and south-west England across a period of rapid political, social, and economic change (c.1920s-1969). Local histories o…

Europe’s Populist Condition; Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democrat...

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Research has been carried out by a team at Cardiff University

The party say not only did they lose votes to Nigel Farage's Reform UK, but an unexpected other party

Centre on Constitutional Change

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

Plummeting support for Keir Starmer’s party points to impact of some policies that have proven highly unpopular

In 1922, the Labour Party emerged as the principal party in Wales. Over a century later, Welsh Labour remains dominant, winning all general and devolved elections. Remarkable for a democratic natio...