Women candidates and councillors in Scottish local government, 1974-2012 [PDF]
, 2016 While significant attention has been paid to the levels of representation of women in both the Westminster Parliament and the Scottish Parliament, much less considered has been given to the position within local government.
Bochel C. +24 more
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Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative
E-REA, 2009 The Scottish Parliament and participative democracyThe Scottish Parliament set up in 1999 was designed to embody a new model of governance. Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary ...
Annie THIEC
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Funkcje integracji europejskiej z perspektywy subpaństwowych elit politycznych. U źródeł proeuropejskiego konsensusu w Szkocji [PDF]
Studia Europejskie, 2020 This article aims to explain the phenomena of incredibly broad consensus among the Scottish political elites around European integration. All relevant political forces (present in the 2016–2021 term in the Scottish Parliament) have unequivocally ...
Tomasz Czapiewski
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Citoyenneté et participation politique en Écosse. La décentralisation : une chance pour les femmes ?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2016 This paper intends to analyse the notion of citizenship through the devolution process and its impact on the political representation and participation of women in the Scottish Parliament, which has from the beginning ensured a better representation of ...
Karine Rivière-De Franco
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Learning lessons? The registration of lobbyists at the Scottish parliament: a reply to Coldwell [PDF]
, 2006 The Scottish Parliament was founded on principles of openness and accessibility and signalled the potential for a new style of politics post devolution.
Dinan, William
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Revue 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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Internal political struggle in Scotland on the issue of the region status in 2007–2011
Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2021 For the first time in the national historiography, various aspects of the internal political struggle in Scotland regarding its political status in 2007–2011 are considered.
Igor L. Kurs
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The Scotland Act 2012: The Next Phase of Devolution in Scotland and its Potential Impact on Wales
Études Écossaises, 2013 The need to introduce more transparency in the way devolution is funded in Scotland and Wales is more pressing than ever, given the international financial crisis and the national policy of fiscal austerity implemented by David Cameron’s Coalition ...
Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan
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Emblems of Scotland in Alasdair Gray’s Fiction
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021 Alasdair Gray is one of the most influential post-war Scottish writer along with Muriel Spark, Robin Jenkins, and James Kelman. He is wellknown not only as a contemporary novelist, intellectual, and esthete but also as a political activist and a Scottish
Ekaterina A. Martynenko
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A sentencing exception? Changing sentencing policy in Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 This article reviews developments in penal policy and to sentencing reform in Scotland over the last decade. The devolved government was established in 1999 following the first elections to a Scottish Parliament. Despite being part of the United Kingdom,
Hutton, Neil, Tata, Cyrus
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