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devolution
(redirected from Devolved government)

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devolution
Politics a transfer or allocation of authority, esp from a central government to regional governments or particular interests


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My own country, Scotland, just recently secured devolved government for the first time and we now have responsibility for all aspects of health policy.
After more than 25 years of violent opposition to a "partitionist" solution to the Northern Irish conflict, once militant republicans in Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, accepted a devolved government founded on the legitimacy of partition--at least as an interim arrangement.
Belfast--The current accepted wisdom that the peace process in Northern Ireland is progressing under the devolved government is given the lie by reports from the Finucane Human Rights Centre in Derry.
 
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