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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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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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E-democracy and the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
, 2005 This paper focuses on the introduction and use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the new Scottish Parliament to enhance Scottish citizens’ understanding of the governance of Scotland and to encourage them to participate in the democratic decision making of Scotland. The primary focus is the use of the World Wide Web as a vehicle both
Lesley Beddie +2 more
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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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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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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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The 2016 Scottish Parliament Elections: Unionist Parties and the Constitutional Divide
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 If voting for the Conservative party had become somewhat of a rarity in Scotland since the Thatcher era, the May 2016 Scottish Parliament election ushered in a new era, as it saw the resurgence of the Scottish Conservatives after they obtained a total of
Fiona Simpkins
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History of the Scottish and welsh independence movements: comparison and analysis
Європейські історичні студії, 2021 The article addresses the history of the Scottish and Welsh approaches towards nationalism within the United Kingdom and features inherent in them.
Pavlenko Valerii , Polovin Mykola
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Le rôle de la Kirk dans la réforme de l’Église d’Angleterre de 1639 à 1647
Études Écossaises, 2011 Following the Reformation in 1560, Presbyterianism progressively became the confession of the Scottish nation. In reaction to the reforms by Charles I and William Laud, it was proclaimed National Church of Scotland and protector of the Scottish ...
Sabrina Juillet-Garzon
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Legislative Quality and the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
Edinburgh Law Review, 2017 Writing in The Scotsman in July 2016, Alistair Bonnington made the startling claim that the Scottish Parliament produces “the lowest quality legislation in Europe”.1 Such hyperbole is easy to dismiss; given the linguistic challenges, and the varying roles and styles of legislation in different legal systems, how would one even begin to make such a ...
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