Issue and game frames in the news: Frame-building factors in television coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. [PDF]
This article explores frame building in Scottish television coverage of the 2014 independence referendum. It uses content analysis of news and current affairs coverage and semi-structured interviews with broadcasters and their sources to explain how ...
Dekavalla M.
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Framing referendum campaigns: the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in the press [PDF]
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 ...
Marina Dekavalla
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Not <i>now</i>! Construction of the "now-is-not-the-time" discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the second Scottish independence referendum. [PDF]
Between 2016 and 2021, in response to calls for a second Scottish independence referendum, two British Prime Ministers—Theresa May and Boris Johnson—adopted a holding position, at the core of which was the “now-is-not-the-time” argumentative scheme. As a
Brusenbauch Meislová M.
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A Second Scottish Independence Referendum: Should the Diaspora Get a Vote?
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum settled little in terms of Scotland ’ s constitutional future. The after-effects of what was the largest exercise in democracy in Scottish history certainly increased Scotland ’ s devolved authority but ...
Duncan Sim, Murray Stewart Leith
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The Scottish Independence Referendum [PDF]
The September 2014 Scottish independence referendum was an event of profound constitutional and political significance, not only for Scotland, but for the United Kingdom as a whole. Although Scottish voters chose to remain in the UK, the experience of the referendum and the subsequent political reaction to the 'No' vote that triggered significant ...
Stephen Tierney
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Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated with fundamental changes to campaign organizations ...
Ana Inés Langer
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On 20 September 2014, in the wake of the Scottish Independence Referendum, the pro-union, right-wing British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph’s front page was dominated by a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II in the grounds of her Balmoral Estate in the ...
Laura Clancy
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Making politics educational: the experience of the Scottish referendum on independence
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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Casting for a sovereign role: Socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum [PDF]
This article examines international reactions to Scotland’s 2014 bid for independence as an instance of socialisation of an aspirant state, what we term ‘pre-socialisation’. Building on and contributing to research on state socialisation and role theory, this study proposes a nexus between roles and sovereignty.
R. Beasley, Juliet Kaarbo
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The rhetoric of Alex Salmond and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum [PDF]
This is the first article to examine the rhetoric of Alex Salmond using the Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos) during the 2014 independence referendum. The article examines Salmond’s persuasive style, his political discourses and construction of a specific form of Scottishness between January and September 2014.
Stuart McAnulla, A. Crines
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