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Better Together and the No Campaign: from Project Fear to Grace?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 Better Together was the main umbrella organisation of the No camp during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign. It represented the common effort of three otherwise unlikely-minded British parties to work together and publicly collaborate to ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Open Library of Humanities, 2020 The debate that overtook Scottish society in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence featured the participation of Scottish artists, writers and literary critics in ways that stand in stark contrast to the utter cultural silence with ...
Arianna Introna
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The 2017 General Election in Scotland: a Return to Multi-party Politics?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2018 Although Scotland had long been a Labour stronghold, devolution soon appeared to have served as a political platform for the nationalists who were able to assert their domination of Scottish politics after they obtained both an overall majority of seats ...
Fiona Simpkins
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The 1970 British Commonwealth Games: Scottish reactions to apartheid and sporting boycotts [PDF]
, 2017 The 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh is widely thought to have been a barnstorming success and an excellent advertisement for Scotland. Recent research by the authors, however, shows that the event was a deeply politicized one: reflective of ...
McDowell, Matthew L., Skillen, Fiona
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Typology of think tanks: A comparative study in Finland and Scotland
Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2021 This paper provides a comparative analysis of current Finnish and Scottish think tanks and reviews how think tanks in these countries have evolved, how think tanks seek to influence decision making and engage with their stakeholders.
Markus Mykkänen, Neil Freshwater
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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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Understanding Legislator Experiences of Family-Friendly Working Practices in Political Institutions [PDF]
, 2016 This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in Politics and Gender.
Allen, P, Cutts, D, Winn, M
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La démocratie britannique face au modèle parlementaire écossais
E-REA, 2009 British democracy faced with the Scottish parliamentary modelLike other great democracies, the UK has been under attack since at least the 1980s from constitutional reformers who have pointed out the limits of representative democracy and of the British ...
Nathalie DUCLOS
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Scottish exceptionalism? Normative codes of Scottish nationalism in the British and EU crises [PDF]
, 2017 Scotland has thus far proved immune to the appeal of right-wing populism present in many European neoliberal democracies. This paper argues that changing tension balances in the crises facing the UK as a union state cannot be reduced to an understanding ...
Law, Alex
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The Contentious Politics of Scottish Independence [PDF]
Political Insight, 2020 No abstract available.
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