Predicting Collective Action in a Secessionist Context: Different Motives for Two Opposed Stances [PDF]
Engagement in collective action is essential in the scenario of a secessionist struggle. In this scenario, two groups contend for an incompatible goal and one of them is favoured by the current status quo.
Marcos Dono +5 more
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The Scottish Independence Referendum and After
The Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014 produced an apparently decisive result, with 45 per cent for independence and 55 per cent against. Yet, it has not settled the constitutional issue.
Michael Keating
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Making politics educational: the experience of the Scottish referendum on independence
In 2014 the issue of constitutional change in the UK brought about by an agreement between the UK and Scottish Government, for a referendum on Scottish independence, created the motivation for widespread political engagement with the formal political ...
Jim Crowther
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Scotland’s road to IndyRef2, between two Unions [PDF]
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, has announced a second independence referendum will be held on 19 October 2023. Given the UK government’s refusal to negotiate a new independence referendum, the call for this referendum, popularly known as ...
Javier Antón Merino
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The SNP’s conundrum over a second independence referendum: Scotland’s future in Westminster’s hands
The SNP’s successive election victories since the referendum on Scotland’s independence, in September 2014, have confirmed that, contrary to what the pro-Union parties had argued at the time, the question of Scotland’s constitutional status was ...
Annie Thiec
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The rise of research on independence referendums
This study consisted in undertaking a bibliographical search within the Web of Science Core Collection from January 1900 to December 2020. A total of 637 publications were identified and divided into 9 sections tackling successively the relevance of independence referendums, the biased authorship, the definition of the phenomenon, the technical ...
Harguindéguy, Jean-Baptiste +3 more
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The third independence referendum in New Caledonia – a fallback to colonialism? [PDF]
The third and final referendum in the French overseas territory New Caledonia on December 12, 2021, was wasted. Although the vote was legal and the result was clear (96.5% voting against independence), we argue – along with various international ...
Kowasch, Matthias +3 more
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New Caledonia and/or Kanaky: On the way to political independence? [PDF]
The French overseas territory of New Caledonia, called “Kanaky” by the indigenous Kanak people who represent around 40% of the total population, is preparing a referendum to be held on the question of political independence from France.
Kowasch, Matthias, Forrest, Mickael
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Higher Education and the Referendum on Scottish Independence [PDF]
AbstractDuring the course of the referendum campaign, the Scottish government argued that free tuition for Scottish and EU students symbolised Scotland's preference for universal services and was intrinsically fairer than the ‘marketised’ systems operating in the rest of the UK.
Riddell, Sheila +3 more
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Reflecting of the Iraqi Kurdish referendum in the media (Content Analysis of BBC News, Al Jazeera, IRNA and Radawoo) [PDF]
The Iraqi Kurdish Independence Referendum, despite widespread opposition to the Barzani party's insistence, was held on, on December 25, 2017. And news related to the Kurdish referendum on the Iraqi Kurdistan for a long time has become the top news of a ...
fateme noorirad, zahra hakimi
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