Edited by Michael Kenny, Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Iain McLean, Professor of Politics and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Akash Paun, Senior Fellow, The Institute for Government

Michael Kenny is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on British politics and political ideas, and is the author of The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press, 2014) which won the W.J.M. Mackenzie prize awarded by the Political Studies Association of the UK in 2015. He is currently working on a project, funded by ESRC, examining the implications of Brexit for the UK's territorial constitution.

Iain McLean is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a specialist in UK devolution since his time as a senior member of Tyne & Wear County Council in the 1970s. He has published widely on the Barnett Formula and alternative transfer mechanisms, including those used in Australia. He has served on the Independent Expert Group advising the Calman Commission in Scotland, and an expert group advising the Minister of Finance in Wales on local taxation.

Akash Paun is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Government in London, leading research on devolution and constitutional change. He was Expert Adviser to the British Academy Governing England programme, out of which this book emerged. Recent publications include Four Nation Brexit: How the UK and Devolved Governments Should Work Together on Leaving the EU (2016) and chapters on devolution to four English regions in Governing England: devolution and mayors in England (2017).

Arthur Aughey, Ulster University, University of Hull, & the Academy of Social Sciences
John Curtice, Strathclyde University & NatCen Social Research
John Denham, University of Winchester & the Centre for English Identity and Politics
Alun Evans, British Academy
Robert Ford, University of Manchester
JD Gallagher, University of Oxford
Daniel Gover, Queen Mary University of London
Michael Kenny, University of Cambridge
Iain McLean, University of Oxford
Mick Moran, University of Manchester
Akash Paun, the Institute for Government
Meg Russell, University College London
Jack Sheldon, University of Cambridge
Maria Sobolewska, University of Manchester & Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity
John Tomaney, UCL
Tony Travers, LSE
Karel Williams, University of Manchester

"This lucid, literate and compelling book is a joy to read... a book to which future historians of British politics will turn for decades... a distinguished work of scholarship, written with energy of thought and clarity of style" - Derek Hawes, Journal of Contemporary European Studies