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Political responses to a second Scottish independence referendum: Deferral, denial and delegitimisation

Global Constitutionalism
This paper examines how the UK state has responded to Scottish demands for a second independence referendum, treating those demands as constitutional contestation and asking whether the state has converted that contestation into deliberative engagement ...
Coree Brown Swan, Paul Anderson
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Yes or No? Older people, politics and the Scottish Referendum in 2014

Research on Ageing and Social Policy, 2018
In this article we report on the issues, experiences and patterns of response to the independence referendum with particular reference to older voters.
Jim Crowther, Ellen Boeren, Alan Mackie
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

L'Économie d'une Écosse indépendante, de la rente pétrolière au Brexit

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
The SNP wants Scotland to become independent chiefly on economic grounds. Scottish politicians ought to be able to run Scotland's natural and human resources to boost growth and meet social aims. Yet in 2014 when the referendum on Scotland's independence
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people who are or can be at home anywhere in the world (the “Anywheres”) is at the heart of many contemporary political conflicts. According to him, the
Achim Hildebrandt, Eva‐Maria Trüdinger, Simon Stocker, Ilirjana Ajazaj   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surface Rights: Sovereignty, Citizenship and the Question of Mineral Rights in the Woodward Commission

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article retraces the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of mineral rights. Mineral rights were assumed in the Commission's terms of reference and expected by many Aboriginal people. Why, then, were they not recommended by the Commission?
Laura Rademaker
wiley   +1 more source

Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina, Kynan Gentry, Kirsten Martinus   +2 more
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Mongolia’s 2015 Referendum via Text Messaging: Engaging Rural and Nomadic Citizens in Public Screen Deliberation

International Journal of Communication, 2018
How can emergent democracies engage rural and mobile citizens in deliberative democracy? This article analyzes the ways that Mongolia’s two national referenda, the 1945 vote for independence and the 2015 referendum on mining contracts, attempted to ...
Allison Hahn
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
wiley   +1 more source