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A Failed Upheaval?

open access: yesGroundings, 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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Non-Institutional Forms of Political Participation of Muslim Youth in Modern Scotland

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2021
The article examines the main forms and socio-cultural features of the participation of Muslim youth in Scotland in non-institutional politics. As their research goal, the authors chose to identify the mechanisms through which political processes ...
A. R. Agababov, R. A. Lyovochkin
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Parliamentary practices in Holyrood: ‘new politics’ and the SNP

open access: yesRevue 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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Scotland’s road to IndyRef2, between two Unions [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, has announced a second independence referendum will be held on 19 October 2023. Given the UK government’s refusal to negotiate a new independence referendum, the call for this referendum, popularly known as ...
Javier Antón Merino
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Minor parties and independents in times of change: Scottish local elections 1974 to 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
BROWNE, RE   +7 more
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Internal political struggle in Scotland on the issue of the region status in 2007–2011

open access: yesЖурнал 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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Palaeoglaciation in the Low Latitude, Low Elevation Tropical Andes, Northern Peru

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Characterising glaciological change within the tropical Andes is important because tropical glaciers are sensitive to climate change. Our understanding of glacier dynamics and how tropical glaciers respond to global climate perturbations is poorly ...
Ethan Lee   +5 more
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Learning lessons? The registration of lobbyists at the Scottish parliament: a reply to Coldwell [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Résurgences nationalistes et divergences politiques : quel avenir pour l’Union britannique ?

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2011
Ten years after the 1997 Scottish and Welsh referenda, Plaid Cymru and the SNP both became parties of government in their respective nations. The vast majority of the Welsh and Scottish populations today are in favour of the extension of powers of the ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Quality of Scottish democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The founders of Scottish devolution intended to create a ‘new politics’ that would be less adversarial than British politics. Some of their aspirations resonate with the basic themes of freedom, equality and democratic control in the quality of democracy
Lundberg, Thomas
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