“In this book, Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully trace the tortuous contours of the road to full lawmaking powers in the 2011 referendum. Their argument will provoke debate and discussion in Wales and beyond. It is a very readable, comprehensive, and well-informed account of developments in the unstoppable dynamic of devolution.”

Leighton Andrews, Assembly Member for the Rhondda

“This is no simple narrative of Welsh politics—it is outstanding political science, which gives rich insight into contemporary Wales precisely because it mobilizes so well the best global thinking in political science about nationalism, party competition, direct democracy, and voting behavior. For that reason, Wyn Jones and Scully’s book stands alongside Rick Rawlings’s Delineating Wales as the definitive account of the formation of a new political system in Wales.”

Charlie Jeffrey, University of Edinburgh