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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 Constitutional matters were supposed to have been settled in Scotland with the 2014 independence referendum. Yet they re-emerged in the run-up to the 2015 General Election, through traditional issues (the powers of the Scottish Parliament, the prospect ...
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 26-36, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election delivered a verdict on an unpopular Conservative government, a valence election where the key motivation was to remove a government seen as failing. But this is not a full account of the voting choices of the British public.
Paula Surridge
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After the Referendum: “Rule, Britannia” or “Scotland the Brave”?
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2015 The article analyzes referendum on independence of Scotland in the context of democratic approach to claims for independence of different regions in Europe.
A Gamper
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 The referendum on Scottish independence resulted in an exceptional mobilization as well as a dramatic polarization of the Scottish electorate, with nationalists and unionists emerging as the two central categories of the political debate.
Gilles Leydier
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Framing referendum campaigns: the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in the press [PDF]
Media, Culture & Society, 2016 This article explores the framing of referendum campaigns in the press and its relationship to the framing of elections. Drawing from an empirical analysis of the newspaper coverage of the 2014 Scottish referendum and from previous research on campaigns in different contexts, it finds that frames associated with elections, like the strategic game and ...
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
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National Identities and the 2014 Independence Referendum in Scotland [PDF]
Sociological Research Online, 2015 This paper discusses the 2014 independence referendum in relation to national identities in Scotland. This is done firstly through reflecting on the referendum franchise and then by examining how people's subjective national identities aligned with key political attitudes relevant to the constitutional question.
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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La monnaie d'une Écosse indépendante, enjeu du référendum d'autodétermination de 2014
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 In the 2014 referendum campaign the SNP claimed that an independent Scotland would use sterling as part of a currency union with the rest of the UK. George Osborne's blunt refusal to negotiate such a union turned this technical question into an issue ...
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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Independence and oral health: implications of the Scottish referendum [PDF]
British Dental Journal, 2014 On 18 September 2014, a referendum will be held on Scotland becoming a nation independent from the rest of the United Kingdom. Since devolution in 1999 child dental health in Scotland has improved significantly, although the National Health Service in Scotland has always been governed through a separate legislative framework from that in England and ...
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