5.1 The UK model of devolution

In its programme of devolution, the Labour government had to decide whether to adopt a symmetric decentralisation model, which would confer an equal degree of devolution to the UK's constituent nations, or to implement an asymmetric decentralisation model, which would grant differing degrees of autonomy to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They opted for the second model in an attempt to respond to different claims about self-determination and to react to different degrees o
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Learning outcomes

After studying this unit you should be able to:

• understand the arithmetical properties of the rational and real numbers;

• understand the definition of a complex number;

• perform arithmetical operations with complex numbers;

• represent complex numbers as points in the complex plane;

• determine the polar form of a complex number;

• use de Moivre's Theorem to find the nth roots o
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Click below to hear an audio clip describing Redwood Day Unit.

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