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With uncertainty over independence, Catalonia is set for its most significant National Day demonstration since Spain’s transition to democracy [PDF]
, 2014 The Catalan government has announced its intention to hold a referendum on declaring independence from Spain on 9 November. However, with the Spanish government opposing the referendum, it is unclear what form such a vote would take, or even if it will ...
Balfour, Sebastian
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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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, 2014 Polish migrants are the largest non-UK born population in Scotland (56,000 in 2012). As EU citizens who are resident in Scotland, they are eligible to vote in the 18 September 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
McGhee, Derek, Pietka-Nykaza, Emilia
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IndyRef2? The thorny question of Scottish independence hasn’t gone away [PDF]
, 2016 As announced by Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, at the SNP conference last week, a second Independence Referendum Bill has been published in draft form by the Scottish government.
Thomson, Jeniffer
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Making politics educational: the experience of the Scottish referendum on independence
Historia Social y de la Educación, 2015 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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Different Process, Same Outcome? The Problems of Within‐Party Sortition
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract A recent article in Political Quarterly argues for a ‘sortition of candidature’. We show that because political parties are not themselves socially representative, such a scheme would not result in a socially representative Parliament. Drawing on data from the Party Members Project, we show that while some demographic groups would be better ...
Philip Cowley, Paul Webb, Tim Bale
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What happens if Scotland votes ‘Yes’ in the independence referendum? [PDF]
, 2014 Scotland will hold an independence referendum on 18 September, but what would actually happen if voters opted to back independence from the UK? Norman Bonney assesses how the Scottish and UK governments would seek to negotiate Scotland’s independence ...
Bonney, Norman
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Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Risk tolerance is fundamental to decision-making and behaviour. Here we show that individuals' tolerance of risk follows a weekly cycle. We observed this cycle directly in a behavioural experiment using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (Lejuez et al., 2002;
Jet G Sanders, Rob Jenkins
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach +2 more
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PRINCIPI DEMOCRÀTIC I JUSTIFICACIÓ CONSTITUCIONAL DEL DRET DE DECIDIR [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2014 In this article the author defends that the right to decide, understood as the holding of a referendum on the political future of Catalonia, is not banned by the Spanish Constitution (SC).
Josep Maria Vilajosana
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