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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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What lies between - the Scottish Independence Referendum 2023 [PDF]
Debates about the political and legal case for the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014 and the non-referendum of October 2023 have centred around the retention and resolution of ambiguities about political mandates and legal powers.
McCorkindale, Christopher
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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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On Legal Aspects of the Independence Referendum of Iraqi Kurdistan
, 2017 In the referendum held on 25 September 2017, the voters of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) went to the polls to decide whether they wanted an independent state. In this independence referendum, the voters were asked the following question:
Şen, İlker Gökhan
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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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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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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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Law Regulation Of Scottish Independence Referendum
, 2016 Przedmiotem opracowania jest problematyka referendum niepodległościowego na przykładzie Szkocji, Zjednoczonego Królestwa Wielkiej Brytanii oraz Irlandii Północnej.
Rulka, Marcin
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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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