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Rebuilding the Women's Estate: Imaginary Penalities in Scottish Imprisonment, 2012–2023

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores a period during which the Scottish Prison Service aspired to a ‘golden age’ for imprisonment, tracing how a narrative of progress shaped a decade of struggle to close Scotland's national prison for women: ‘Cornton Vale’.
Cara Hunter
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral ...
Fiona Simpkins
doaj   +1 more source

Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
wiley   +1 more source

Is Anyone Listening? Audience Engagement through Public Media Related to the Scottish Independence Referendum

open access: yesThe social science, 2019
This paper explores perspectives from which citizen participation in media debates on civic issues can be reconsidered by means of a review of the existing literature on this subject and a qualitative study of how one particular public service media ...
Irati Agirreazkuenaga-Onaindia   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Asymmetric Regulatory Embeddedness and Post‐Brexit Governance: Explaining Adaptive Convergence in the United Kingdom

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Why has the United Kingdom repeatedly restored substantive compatibility with European Union (EU) regulatory norms despite formal withdrawal? This article introduces the concept of asymmetric regulatory embeddedness (ARE) to explain post‐membership governance in highly integrated sectors. ARE captures the structural condition in which a former
George Asiamah
wiley   +1 more source

Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

The Scottish Independence Referendum and the Principles of Democratic Secession [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
On September 18, 2014, Scottish voters decided whether to sever the 307 years of unity between Scotland and the United Kingdom in an independence referendum.
Levites, Benjamin
core   +1 more source

Scotland’s twin referendums: revealing regional divides behind national votes

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science
Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum and the 2016 EU referendum are often interpreted as politically aligned at the national scale, reinforcing a simplified narrative of a strongly pro-independence, pro-EU portion of the Scottish electorate.
Craig Stewart, Xinyi Yuan, Mingshu Wang
doaj   +1 more source

From privileged to thwarted stakeholders – Polish migrants’ perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015

open access: yes, 2016
Scotland in 2014 and 2015 provides an ideal context for examining EU citizenship political rights as established in the Maastricht Treaty of 1993 from the perspective of Polish migrants resident in Scotland.
D. McGhee, Emilia Pietka-Nykaza
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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