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From One Referendum to the Other: the Scottish Dimension to the Debate over Europe

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
This paper examines the role played by the European issue in the Scottish referendum campaign, especially the way the SNP tried to use it to its advantage.
Pauline Schnapper
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Razem czy osobno?

open access: yesPoliteja, 2014
Together or Separately? Scottish Independence Tendencies In 1707, the Act of Union formally united Scotland with England as Great Britain. Scotland retained its own legal system, churches and universities but all real political power moved to London ...
Joanna Aleksandra Radowicz
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Le traitement médiatique du référendum de 2014 pour l’indépendance de l’Écosse : de la comparaison analytique à la récupération politique

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2023
Based on a corpus of newspaper articles, this paper aims at analyzing the way in which the Quebecois press saw the referendum that took place on the independence of Scotland in September 2014.
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
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Devolution, the Independence Referendum and Votes at 16 in Scotland: Holyrood, a Pioneer in Democracy Leading the Way for Westminster?

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
The Scottish Parliament enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds prior to the 2014 referendum on independence of Scotland from the UK. Scotland was among the very first nations in the world to lower the minimum voting age below 18.
Sarah Pickard
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Constitutional pathways to a second independence referendum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
On 19 December 2019 – a week after the UK General Election at which the Scottish National Party (SNP), again, won an overwhelming majority of Scottish seats – the Scottish Government published its long-awaited case for a second independence referendum ...
McCorkindale, Christopher   +1 more
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Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges

open access: yesParty Politics, 2020
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like ...
L. Bennie, James Mitchell, R. Johns
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The1997 Scottish referendum : an analysis of the Scottish referendum [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Referendums are rare events in the United Kingdom. Only one UK-wide referendum has been held - on membership of the European Community (as it then was) in 1975 - and before 1997 there had been only three other significant referendums: in 1973, in ...
Pattie, C.   +3 more
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Między niepodległością a Unią Europejską

open access: yesPoliteja, 2017
Between independence and European Union. Paradoxes of the Scottish National Party’s attitude towards Brexit The purpose of this article is to explain the attitude of the Scottish National Party (SNP) towards European integration, based on a study of ...
Tomasz Czapniewski
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‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum

open access: yesCitizenship Studies, 2018
This paper examines the rights claims-making that young people engaged in during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum when the right to vote was extended to 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time in the UK.
Gurchathen Sanghera   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Referendum debate riposte

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014
The nub of Garry Coutts' argument in favour of a 'No' vote is that the Independence Referendum is a distraction from 'real' politics. An alternative reading might be that, rather than being a sideshow, the Referendum has provided a focus for a ...
Mark Smith
doaj   +2 more sources

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