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Political Science and Scottish Politics
British Journal of Political Science, 1980There is now a considerable literature about Scottish politics, most of it concerned with nationalism and devolution, but some of it consisting of institutional and administrative studies. The purpose of this article is to review the main books and articles in the field and to assess their successes and failures in accurately portraying and predicting ...
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Politics and the Scottish Constitution
1998We saw in the last chapter that state, society and nation are more complex ideas than is commonly supposed in the rhetoric of politics. The problem is exacerbated in a state such as the UK where there is no written constitution. It is impossible to go to an authoritative document to settle disputes about where power and sovereignty lie.
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1991
Twenty years ago, a book on Scottish politics might have appeared an eccentricity. The ‘homogeneity thesis’ held that Britain’s unitary constitution rested on a uniform political culture in which issues of territory, religion, language and nationality had given way to a politics of class.
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Twenty years ago, a book on Scottish politics might have appeared an eccentricity. The ‘homogeneity thesis’ held that Britain’s unitary constitution rested on a uniform political culture in which issues of territory, religion, language and nationality had given way to a politics of class.
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The Scottish Political Commentariat
2014This chapter introduces the idea of the commentariat. It reviews the emergence and evolution of the term and how it is differentiated from related practices and groups, such as journalists.
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1998
The 1997 general election will be remembered as record-breaking in many respects. One of the features that attracted media headlines was the significant rise in the number of women MPs in the House of Commons, increasing from the 1992 figure of 60 to a total of 120.
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The 1997 general election will be remembered as record-breaking in many respects. One of the features that attracted media headlines was the significant rise in the number of women MPs in the House of Commons, increasing from the 1992 figure of 60 to a total of 120.
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The Future of Scottish Politics
1999Speculation about the future of Scottish politics is easy; prediction is much more difficult. This final chapter attempts to predict on the basis of the speculations of the respondents to two surveys: the Scottish Election Survey and the Scottish Referendum Survey, both of 1997.
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The political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment
2003Scotland's singular voice within the polyphony of the European Enlightenment has attracted a great deal of debate. As historians attempt to weigh local varieties of Enlightenment, informed by disparate religious, political and cultural settings, against the transnational concerns and cosmopolitan aspirations of 'the' Enlightenment, Scotland posits a ...
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Devolution and Scottish Politics Ten Years on
Government and Opposition, 2012The article reviews some of the most significant books on Scottish politics ten years after the implementation of ...
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1989
First published in 1973, Professor Kellas's account of Scottish government and politics has long been recognised as the standard textbook in the field. Its scope includes a definition of the Scottish political system, and critical descriptions of Scottish administration (central and local), parliamentary activity, parties, electoral behaviour, and ...
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First published in 1973, Professor Kellas's account of Scottish government and politics has long been recognised as the standard textbook in the field. Its scope includes a definition of the Scottish political system, and critical descriptions of Scottish administration (central and local), parliamentary activity, parties, electoral behaviour, and ...
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Introduction: the Distinctiveness of Scottish Politics
1999‘There shall be a Scottish Parliament’. So began clause one of the 1997 Scotland Bill. The election of a Labour government in May 1997 with a record majority — after 18 years of Conservative rule — provided the opportunity for constitutional change which many political activists in Scotland had campaigned for over a long period of time. The White Paper
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