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The evidence from Spain's 28-year experiment with devolution indicates otherwise. The problem is that the yes camp did not really believe in what they were selling.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 12:21:59 PM EST
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Well, absolutely.

The Yes camp were useless, but the proposals were pretty weak too. Control freaks at Westminister were not willing to give the local assemblies enough powers to make them viable.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 12:31:11 PM EST
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