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Why the role of international actors could be key in settling Catalonia’s standoff with Madrid over independence [PDF]
, 2015 Catalan President Artur Mas appeared in court on 15 October in relation to the symbolic referendum on independence from Spain held on 9 November 2014. Zoran Oklopcic writes that with Mas and his Junts pel Si coalition committed to setting Catalonia on ...
Oklopcic, Zoran
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Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 13-25, January/March 2025.Abstract While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales.
Will Jennings +3 more
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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 91-101, January/March 2025.Abstract This article examines the social base of support for Reform UK. Did Nigel Farage's new party depend on the same types of ‘left behind’ voters who had previously backed UKIP? Do the results of the 2024 election suggest a hardening of the social divides that underpinned the rise of UKIP? Or has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti‐immigration movement
Oliver Heath +3 more
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The Spanish government should offer Catalonia a referendum on federalism, not independence [PDF]
, 2014 Catalonia held a non-binding consultation on independence on 9 November. Francesc Trillas assesses the argument that the Spanish government should now seek to address the Catalan independence debate by proposing a formal referendum on the issue.
Trillas, Francesc
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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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Surveying migration policy and practice in the independence referendum and beyond [PDF]
, 2015 The Scottish Government’s approach to immigration issues was portrayed during the independence referendum debate as valuing the contribution of migrants in a way which contrasted with the anti-migrant approach of the UK Government.1 The question of ...
Craig, Sarah
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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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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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