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After the Scottish Independence Referendum

Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions, 2019
This chapter examines the independence referendum in Scotland, held on September 18, 2014, and its implications for the federal direction of the United Kingdom.
S. Tierney
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Australia and the Scottish Independence Referendum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The chapter analyzes data from print and online media, including online broadcaster sites, and includes an overview of the Australian media landscape. It also notes the significant percentage of Australians (8.9%) who are Scottish or of Scottish descent. There was considerable Australian interest in the referendum. While there was focus on the Scottish
McNair, Brian
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A tale of two currencies: talking about money and (De)Securitising moves in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Critical Studies on Security, 2021
This article investigates a ‘tale of two currencies’ that played out during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Taking our cue from securitisation literature, we examine what happens when currency is framed as a security issue and threat. Studying
Faye Donnelly, William Vlcek
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The Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014

2021
The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s was followed by significant support for the pro-independence SNP. A devolved Scottish Parliament was established in 1999, which unionists hoped would undermine support for independence. However, in 2011 the SNP secured an overall majority, and the UK government accepted that an independence referendum should ...
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Political risk, investor attention and the Scottish Independence referendum

open access: yes, 2015
Using data relating to the Scottish Independence referendum and a purely market-driven method for estimating the sensitivity of stocks to its result we provide evidence that the political risk associated with the referendum was priced and that investors ...
D. Acker, N. W. Duck
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The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014

Journal of Law and Society, 2014
On 18 September, in a historic referendum, the people of Scotland voted by 55.3 per cent to 44.7 per cent to remain in the United Kingdom. This article provides an immediate response. It is inevitably provisional and broadbrush in character and cannot cover all of the varied and conflicting perspectives on the referendum and its consequences; it is ...
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The Scottish Independence Referendum in an International Context

Canadian Yearbook of international Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international, 2014
SummaryThere are no universally applicable procedural standards under international law for independence referenda. However, in contemporary comparative practice, a minimum requirement has emerged for clarity of both the winning majority and the referendum question.
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