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Independence Referendum and Youth Party Membership in Scotland

open access: yesRevue LISA
Party membership has declined since the end of the 20th century, going hand in hand with citizens’ increasing lack of interest in politics in Western democracies.
Claire Breniaux
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La monnaie d'une Écosse indépendante, enjeu du référendum d'autodétermination de 2014

open access: yesRevue 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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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

The EU referendum and legislation on ‘English votes for English laws’ will be crucial for Scotland’s future in the Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The crucial factor in any future move towards Scottish independence is not the will of the Scottish electorate, which clearly rejected independence in last year’s referendum, but the will of the English electorate, writes Elliott ...
Green, Elliott
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Demokracja bezpośrednia wobec dążeń separatystycznych. Rozważania nad kategorią referendum niepodległościowego [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this article was to present the referendum on independence within the framework of the current definitions and typologies of referendum, and to present the main doubts concerning the political conditions and the function of the independence ...
Czapiewski, Tomasz
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

open access: yesInternational 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

Yes Cymru: the debate on Welsh independence has begun for good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The tectonic plates under the United Kingdom are moving: a second Independence Referendum for Scotland is coming and calls from both sides of the Irish border for a reunification referendum have been made. In Wales, the dragon is ever-so-slowly beginning
Parry, Samuel
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Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Could an independent Scotland join the European Union? EPC Policy Brief, 28 May, 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The people of Scotland vote on 18 September 2014 in a referendum on the question "Should Scotland be an independent country?" The Scottish Government aims, if the result is 'yes', for Scotland to become independent in March 2016 and to join the main ...
Avery, Graham
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