Devolved UK Politics
Devolved UK politics, with a particular focus on the Welsh Labour Party, has been the longest running focus of my research. Below are a series of peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters in edited collections, which focus on this area.
Further discussion can be found on the Media & Comment page. My evidence to the House of Lords Constitutional Committee was also cited in the report The Union and Devolution: 10th Report of Session 2015-2016. Details of the project I co-led on The Future of Scottish Labour can be found via the Institute of Policy Research.
Publications on Devolved UK Politics
Bennett, S., Moon, D.S., Pearce, N. & Whiting, S. (2021) Labouring under a delusion? Scotland's national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party. Territory, Politics, Governance: Journal of the Regional Studies Association. 9(5): 656-674. Online.
Moon, D.S., Thomson, J. & Whiting, S. (2019) Lost in the Process? The impact of devolution on abortion law in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 21(4): 728-745. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2017) Red Dragon FM: Carywn Jones’s ‘Welsh Labour Rhetoric’. In J. Atkins & J. Gaffney (eds.) Voices of the UK Left: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Performance of Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 123-146. Online.
Moon, D.S. & Evans, T. (2017) Welsh devolution and the problem of legislative competence. British Politics. 12(3): 335-360. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2016) Devolution. In Crines, A. & Hickson, K. (eds.) Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? London: Biteback.
Moon, D.S. (2016) 'We’re Internationalists, not Nationalists’: the political ramifications of Welsh Labour’s internal power struggle over the ‘One Wales’ coalition in 2007. Contemporary British History. 30(2): 281-302. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2014) Rhetoric and devolution: Time and Space in Welsh Labour Rhetoric on Devolution. In Atkins, J., Finlayson, A. Martin, J. & Turnbull, N. (eds.) Rhetoric in British Politics and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 87-100. Online.
Moon, D.S. & Ø. Bratberg (2014) Why the Welsh said yes, but the Northerners no: the role of political parties in consolidating territorial government. Contemporary British History. 28(3): 318-340. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2012) ‘Tissue on the Bones’: Towards the Development of a Post-structuralist Institutionalism [*illustrated via Welsh Labour’s use of private finance in health provision]. Politics. 33(2): 112-123. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2013) A Democratic Socialist case for the Union. In Hattersley R. & Hickson, K. (eds.) The Socialist Way: Social democracy in contemporary Britain. London: I.B. Taurus.
Moon, D.S. (2013) Rhetoric and policy learning: On Rhodri Morgan's 'Clear Red Water' and 'Made in Wales' health policies. Public Policy and Administration. 28(3): 306-323. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2013) Welsh Labour in Power: ‘One Wales’ vs. ‘One Nation’? Renewal. 21(1): 77-86. Online.
Flinders, M. & Moon, D.S. (2011) The problem of letting go: The ‘Big Society’, accountable governance and ‘the curse of the decentralising minister’. Local Economy. 26(8): 652-662. Online.
Moon, D.S. & Ø. Bratberg (2010) Conceptualising the multi-level party: Two complimentary approaches [*illustrated via UK Labour Party after devolution]. Politics. 30(1): 52-60. Online.
Moon, D.S. (2009) Review of Clear Red Water: Welsh Devolution and Socialist Politics. Renewal. 17(3): 89-91. Online.
Publications on General UK Politics