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Citoyenneté et participation politique en Écosse. La décentralisation : une chance pour les femmes ?
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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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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The Scotland Act 2012: The Next Phase of Devolution in Scotland and its Potential Impact on Wales
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
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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E-democracy and the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
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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Marking the card : the Scottish Parliament at 1000 days [PDF]
Paper presented to the IBIS conference Renovation or revolution? new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom, University College Dublin, 3 April 2002.The first term of the Scottish Parliament is more than half-way to completion, with ...
McCrone, David
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The Role of Lived Experience in the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
This briefing presents the findings of research undertaken as part of an Academic Fellowship based with Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) between January and July 2025.
Burn-Murdoch, Ailsa +1 more
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Emblems of Scotland in Alasdair Gray’s Fiction
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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Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) Evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) Evidence submitted to the Scottish ParliamentSCCS' Evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament about the Fourth National Planning Framework ...
SCCS (Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage)
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Legislative Quality and the Scottish Parliament [PDF]
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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