Contemporary Wales On Line 
ISSN 0951-4937
Editors:
Paul Chaney and Jonathan Scourfield
Cardiff University
Andy Thompson
University of Glamorgan
Editorial Board:
Dr Richard Wyn Jones, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Professor Michael Hechter, University of Washington
Professor Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College
Professor Huw Beynon, Cardiff University
Dr Charlotte Aull Davies, University of Wales, Swansea
Professor Christopher Harvie, Universitat Tübingen
Dr Delyth Morris, University of Wales, Bangor
Professor Wayne Parsons, University of London
Professor Richard Rawlings, London School of Economics
Professor Teresa Rees, Cardiff University
Dr Nigel O'Leary, University of Wales, Swansea
Published under the auspices of the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, Contemporary Wales is an annual review of economic and social developments and trends in Wales. It is an authoritative analysis, drawing upon the most up-to-date research, and the only comprehensive source of analysis across the range of economic and social research about Wales.
Contemporary Wales has a wide-ranging brief, addressing in recent volumes Objective One funding, post-devolution politics, community regeneration, gender and social change and economic development, among other matters. Forthcoming editions will contain special sections assessing the performance of the Assembly’s across a number of policy areas during its first term, on the arts and media – looking at local radio, the Internet, the press and art and devolution – and on young people and Welsh identity. Each volume includes an annual economic review.
Recent and forthcoming papers include:
‘In the fifteen years of Contemporary Wales's existence, it has provided an unrivalled record of the social, political and economic issues of the period. It remains an authoritative source of information and debate for all interested in the future of our nation.’ Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan AM, First Minister
‘For many years, Contemporary Wales, published by the Board of Celtic Studies, has been the only academic social science journal covering the political, social, economic and cultural life of Wales today. At a time of rapid transformation in the aftermath of Devolution, it provides a unique fount of analysis, of enduring value not only to scholars but to all concerned Welsh citizens.’ Professor Kenneth O. Morgan, House of Lords
‘Contemporary Wales should be on the must-have list of any Assembly Member and their researchers. It really is the journal of record for social and economic policy, with a reach which combines academics, policy-makers and practitioners in a way which is unique to Wales.’ Professor Mark Drakeford, social policy adviser to the cabinet, National Assembly for Wales
‘As a forum for critical debate, prepared to challenge conventional wisdom and sting discussion into being, Contemporary Wales has an important role to play.’ British Journal of Politics and International Relations
"Contemporary Wales is the premier journal in Wales for the analysis of theory, policy and practice in Welsh affairs. At a time when the links between Welsh-based academics are tenuous to say the least, Contemporary Wales offers a forum to remedy this unfortunate situation. The focus of Contemporary Wales may be local, but it is certainly not parochial. To paraphrase what was said about Carwyn James - its world is Wales, its Wales worldwide." Professor Kevin Morgan, University of Wales, Cardiff
"The National Assembly has 'opened the books' on whole areas of Welsh life which were previously hidden in the Welsh Office. It has also introduced to Wales the dangerous novelty of policy-making. Never has there been a greater opportunity and a greater need for a critical analysis of the economic and social life of Wales. Contemporary Wales takes that opportunity and meets that need. It has always had a valuable place on my bookshelf. It is now indispensable." Professor Phil Williams, AM
"Recent constitutional developments make it all the more important that relevant research on policy issues reaches a wide audience. Contemporary Wales is a vitally important addition to the our growing store of knowledge about how Wales works." Geraint Talfan Davies Chairman, Institute of Welsh Affairs
The Assembly’s first term
1. Iaith Pawb: The doctrine of plenary inclusion – COLIN H. WILLIAMS
2. Democratic devolution and education policy in Wales: the emergence of a national system? – GARETH REES
3. Wales, devolution and health policy: policy experimentation and differentiation to improve health - MICHAEL SULLIVAN
4. An assessment of the Objective One programme in Wales, 1999-2003 – PHIL BOLAND
5. A contradictory combination: the Assembly and rural Wales – PETER MIDMORE
6. Sustainable Development in Wales: Schemes and Structures, Debate and Delivery - KEVIN BISHOP AND ANDREW FLYNN
Other articles
7. Disaster? Whose Disaster? The National Assembly Election 2003 – GERALD TAYLOR
8. The Richard Commission- Wales’s alternative constitutional convention? – LAURA McALLISTER
9. Women’s representation in Wales and Scotland – FIONA MCKAY
10. The practice and construction of corporate social responsibility among small to medium sized enterprises in South Wales – SIMON BROOKS
11. Cymru Ar-lein? Access and use of public ICT sites in Wales – NEIL SELWYN, STEPHEN GORARD and CATHERINE HUBERT
Review symposium
12. Review symposium on Graham Day’s Making Sense of Wales
Editorial introduction - RICHARD WYN JONES
From post-industrial to post-social - CHRIS HARVIE
Researcher positioning and the ‘problem of Wales’ - CHARLOTTE AULL DAVIES
Blaming the victim - GLYN WILLIAMS
Policing the national frontiers - GRAHAM DAY
Editor’s Note Richard Wyn Jones
COMMUNITIES
1. Continuity and Change in the Valleys: Residents’ Perceptions in 1995 and 2001
David Adamson and Stuart Jones
2. Ely: A ‘Dangerous Place’ Revisited
Jonathan Evans and Fiona Wood
POLITICS
3.Whitehall’s Last Stand: The Establishment of the Welsh Office, 1964
Ted Rowlands
4. Devolution and Party Organization: The Case of the Wales Labour Party
Martin Laffin, Gerald Taylor and Alys Thomas
5. Business as Usual? Comparing Westminster and National Assembly Elections in Wales
Roger Scully
SOCIETY
6. Wales and Welshness in Middle Childhood
Jonathan Scourfield, Andrew Davies and Sally Holland
7. Civil Society and Objective 1
Elin Royles
COMMENT
8. Wales: Home Rule or Half-Rule?
Simon Jenkins
9. Democratizing Local Government in Wales
Angharad Closs Stephens
ECONOMY
10. An Overview of the Welsh Labour Market
Melanie K. Jones, Richard J. Jones and Peter J. Sloane
11. The Welsh Economy: A Statistical Profile
David Brooksbank
INDEX TO VOLUMES 11–16
Editor's Note Richard Wyn Jones
1. Life on the Edge: Identity Politics and Political Identity Amongst the Cardiff Gypsy Population Roz Wornell
2. Ron Davies and the Cult of 'Inclusiveness': Devolution and Participation in Wales Paul Chaney and Ralph Fevre
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN ACTION
3. Y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol - Blwyddyn mewn Grym?
(The National Assembly - A Year in Power?) Dafydd Elis-Thomas
4. Can Mainstreaming Deliver? The Equal Opportunities Agenda and the
National Assembly for Wales Charlotte Williams
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION RETROSPECTIVE
5. Is Devolution Succouring Nationalism? John Curtice
6. The National Assembly Election Campaigns:
The Labour Party Geoff Mungham
Plaid Cymru Laura McAllister
The Conservative Party J Barry Jones
The Liberal Democrat Party Alys Thomas
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
7. Learning for Active Citizenship - a Critical Examination of the Challenges Facing Community Education Providers in Wales Jeremy Gass
8. Using measures of social capital to monitor the impacts of community-led regeneration policies in Wales Gary Higgs and Sean White
ECONOMY
9. The Welsh Economy: A Statistical Profile David Brooksbank
NATIONAL IDENTITY
1. From Beulah Land to Cyber-Cymru
Wayne Parsons
2. The Production of National Identity in Wales: Higher Education and the Welsh
Language
Luke Desforges and Rhys Jones
RETHINKING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. Industrial Enclaves or Embedded Forms of Economic Activity? Overseas
Manufacturing Investment in Wales
N. A. Phelps and Danny MacKinnon
4. A New Economic Development Model for the New Wales
Molly Scott Cato
5. The Digital Value Chain and Economic Transformation: Rethinking Regional
Development in the New Economy
Glyn Williams
SOCIETY IN TRANSFORMATION?
6. It's Still There! Maintaining the Glass Ceiling in Wales
Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies, David Blackaby, Phil Murphy, Nigel
O'Leary and Paul Ransome
7. The Economic and Social Consequences of the Closure of BP Llandarcy
Ian Barney, David Blackaby, Paul Latreille, Lynn Mainwaring, Neil Manning,
Philip Murphy, Nigel O'Leary and Jim Twomey
POST-DEVOLUTION POLITICS
8. Devolution, Parties and New Politics: Candidate Selection for the 1999 National
Assembly Elections
Jonathan Bradbury, Lynn Bennie, David Denver and James Mitchell
9. From Parliament to Assembly: Changing Voter Behaviour in Wales between the
1997 General Election and the 1999 National Assembly Election
Ron Johnston, Dafydd Trystan, Charles Pattie and Richard Wyn Jones
10. Inclusive Governance? The Case of 'Minority' and Voluntary Sector Groups and
the National Assembly for Wales
Paul Chaney, Tom Hall and Bella Dicks
ECONOMY
11. Public-Service-Sector Employment and Public-Private Wage Differentials: A Research
Note
Andrew Henley and Dennis Thomas
12. The Welsh Economy: A Statistical Profile
David Brooksbank
CONTRIBUTORS
Editorial - Richard Wyn Jones
SOCIETY
1. Boys from Nowhere: Finding Welsh Men and Putting Them in their Place
Jonathan Scourfield and Mark Drakeford
2. Industrial South Wales: Learning Society Past, Present or Future?
Gareth Rees, Stephen Gorard and Ralph Fevre
3. The Laity of the Church in Wales: Sex Differences in Religious Practice, Attitude and
Involvement
Richard Startup and Chris Harris
POLITICS
4. Local Branch Activity and Organization in the Yes for Wales Campaign, 1997
Michael Woods
5. The 1996 Reorganization of Local Government in Wales: Issues, Process and Uneven
Outcomes
Simon Pemberton
6. Cynulliad Cenedlaethol: Plus ça change ynteu Cychwyn Proses? (National Assembly: Plus
ça change or the Beginning of a Process?)
Ioan Bowen Rees
7. Governance and the Language
Colin H Williams
ECONOMY
8. The Selling of Rural Wales
Joe Howe
9. Small Businesses in the Media Industry in Wales
Nerys Fuller-Love and Aled G Jones
10. The Welsh Economy: A Statistical Profile
David Brooksbank
Editorial Graham Day and Dennis Thomas
1 Wales and its Media: Production, Consumption and Regulation Hugh McKay and Anthony Powell
2 Welsh Language Publications: [achievements and limitations?] D. Roy Thomas
3 Regeneration Versus Representation in the Rhondda: the story of the Rhondda Heritage Park Bella Dicks
4 A Woman's Voice in a Man's world: listening to women clergy in the Church in Wales Leslie J. Francis and Mandy Robbins
5 The Winners and Losers in Wales' First Unitary Elections Russel Deacon
6 Constitutional Reform in Wales: some views from the front Mark Drakeford
7 RECHAR: Too Little, Too late? Robert H. Morgan and D. Ellis Jenkins
8 The Labour Market in North Wales: Problems and Prospects David Jones, Geoff Owen and Philip Wilson
9 Welsh Speakers and the Labour Market David Blackaby and Stephen Drinkwater
10 The Welsh Economy: a statistical profile Stephen Drinkwater
General policy:
Contemporary Wales is an annual review of economic and social developments and trends in Wales. It provides an authoritative analysis drawing upon the most up-to-date research, and represents the only comprehensive source of analysis across the range of economic and social research about Wales. It is a Board of Celtic Studies journal published once a year, and contains articles selected for their quality and significance to contemporary society in Wales. Submissions are refereed and are accepted for publication on the assumption that they have not been previously published and are not currently being submitted to any other journal. The normal maximum length for articles is about 5,000 words. An abstract of up to 200 words is required.
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Ambrose, P. (1974). The Quiet Revolution, London: Chatto and Windus.
Buller, H. and Hoggart, K. (1994b). ‘The social integration of British home owners into French rural communities’, Journal of Rural Studies, 10, 2, 197–210.
Dower, M. (1977). ‘Planning aspects of second homes’, in Coppock, J. T. (ed.), Second Homes: Curse or Blessing?, Oxford: Pergamon Press.
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