Groundings, 2022 Opposition to the adversarial politics of the Westerminster Parliament was closely interwoven with the campaign for Scottish devolution. Upon its foundation, the initial proponents of Scottish devolution intended for the new Scottish Parliament to ...
Duncan Henderson
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Scottish Education: Between the UK and the Nordic
Nordic Studies in Education, 2023 The (re)opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 cemented calls for small state self-management, particularly along Nordic lines, both to reflect the desire for independence and belief that small states prosper when aligned with similar jurisdictions ...
Paul Adams
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Parliamentary practices in Holyrood: ‘new politics’ and the SNP
Revue LISA, 2022 The Scottish Parliament was meant to represent a revolution in the way that Scots were governed as its supporters frequently expressed the hope that such a body would be a new type of institution that would represent a break with the Westminster model ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Scottish Women and Political Representation in the UK and Scottish Parliaments (1918–2020)
Open Library of Humanities, 2020 This article reviews the record of Scottish women’s representation in the UK Parliament since 1918, and in the Scottish Parliament since 1999. Women candidates have stood for election to Westminster at every General Election since 1918, with the first ...
Esther Breitenbach
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Scottish Gaelic political terminology – Term formation in the Scottish Parliament Annual Report
LingBaW, 2022 This paper analyses the Scottish Gaelic political terminology used by the Scottish Parliament, based on the translations of three Annual Reports.
Lena Krochmann
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From Canada to Scotland: The Incorporation of Ethical Wildlife Control Principles: A Review
Laws, 2023 In 2015, 20 experts from academia, industry, and non-governmental organisations on 5 continents agreed to a set of seven international principles for ethical decision making (“the principles”) in managing human–wildlife conflict.
Hannah Louise Moneagle
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Minor parties and independents in times of change: Scottish local elections 1974 to 2007 [PDF]
, 1978 This article explores the electoral performance of minor party and Independent candidates in Scottish local elections from 1974 to 2007. This is a period which began with a major restructuring of local government and ended with a change in the electoral ...
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La démocratie britannique face au modèle parlementaire écossais
E-REA, 2009 British democracy faced with the Scottish parliamentary modelLike other great democracies, the UK has been under attack since at least the 1980s from constitutional reformers who have pointed out the limits of representative democracy and of the British ...
Nathalie DUCLOS
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The Scottish Parliament and the monarchy in the context of the monarchy and the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, 1603-1707 [PDF]
, 2009 This journal article depicts the Scottish Parliament and the monarchy in the context of the monarchy and the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, 1603 ...
Young, John R.
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English funding of the Scottish armies in England and Ireland 1640-1648 [PDF]
, 2009 The rebellion against Charles I's authority that began in Edinburgh in 1637 involved the Scots in successive invasions of England and armed intervention in Ireland. Historians have almost universally taken a negative view of Scottish involvement in these
Stewart, Laura A.M.
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