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The Scottish Independence Referendum: Constitutional and Political Implications

open access: yes, 2016
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.
A. Mcharg   +3 more
exaly   +8 more sources

Stakeholder Citizenship: The Complexities of Polish Migrants’ Citizenship Attachments in the Context of the Scottish Independence Referendum [PDF]

open access: yesCitizenship Studies, 2016
This article focuses on the experiences of Scotland’s largest foreign-born minority group, namely Poles, in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.
Derek McGhee, Emilia Pietka-Nykaza
exaly   +5 more sources

Campaigning for the Female Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum: Comparing Women for Independence and Women Together [PDF]

open access: yesScottish Affairs, 2018
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign saw a surge of campaigning activity from groups on both sides of the debate. The mainstream elements of the campaign were criticised for not bringing enough attention to women's issues, and so Women For ...
Kirstein Rummery
exaly   +3 more sources

Bottom-up versus Top-down Campaigning at the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 [PDF]

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 saw one of the longest political campaigns in modern UK politics. The referendum saw the formation of a hybrid Yes campaign that combined modern campaigning techniques with a large, activist grassroots that ...
Peter Lynch
doaj   +2 more sources

NEW SCOTS AND MIGRATION IN THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM [PDF]

open access: yesScottish Affairs, 2015
This article explores how the issue of immigration was debated by Scottish and UK political actors during the Scottish independence referendum. It considers the longer-term positions of Scottish elites on immigration, before focussing on the ways in which the Yes camp's liberal, multiculturalist approach contrasted sharply with the more restrictive ...
Eve Hepburn
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum

open access: yes, 2017
This article explores the prominence of different types of sources in the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum on BBC Scotland’s regional news bulletin. It combines the most commonly used classifications of news sources in the literature
Marina Dekavalla, Alenka Jelen-Sanchez
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Scottish Independence Referendum and After

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014 produced an apparently decisive result, with 45 per cent for independence and 55 per cent against. Yet, it has not settled the constitutional issue.
Michael Keating
doaj   +2 more sources

Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Political responses to a second Scottish independence referendum: Deferral, denial and delegitimisation

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
This paper examines how the UK state has responded to Scottish demands for a second independence referendum, treating those demands as constitutional contestation and asking whether the state has converted that contestation into deliberative engagement ...
Coree Brown Swan, Paul Anderson
doaj   +2 more sources

Democracy in schools, Dewey and the referendum on Scottish independence

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate young people’s perceptions of authority, representation and their involvement in decision-making in school, beyond school and in the referendum on Scottish independence.
Rachel Shanks , Claire Molloy
doaj   +3 more sources

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