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The 2017 General Election in Scotland: a Return to Multi-party Politics?

open access: yesRevue 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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Better Together and the No Campaign: from Project Fear to Grace?

open access: yesRevue 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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Typology of think tanks: A comparative study in Finland and Scotland

open access: yesAcademicus 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

open access: yesRevue 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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La démocratie britannique face au modèle parlementaire écossais

open access: yesE-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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Introduction: The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 in the Context of Menstrual Politics and History

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2022
In January 2021, Scotland became the first country in the world to make universal access to free period products a legal right, an initiative which attracted extraordinary international attention.
Bettina Bildhauer   +2 more
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La Question du Home Rule écossais, 1880-1914

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
The parliamentary debates inspired by the introduction of motions and bills in favour of Scottish Home Rule between 1889 and 1914 are a remarkable source of information to assess the arguments that were put forward in favour and against Home Rule ...
Christian Auer
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Maley, Willy and Alison O’Malley-Younger (eds.). Celtic Connections: Irish-Scottish Relations and the Politics of Culture

open access: yesABEI Journal, 2013
Maley, Willy and Alison O’Malley-Younger (eds.). Celtic Connections: Irish-Scottish Relations and the Politics of Culture. Series: Reimagining Ireland, Vol. 38. 237 pp. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013.
John Corbett
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Transformation of the Role of Third and Minor Parties in the Political and Party System of Great Britain in 2010-2022 [PDF]

open access: yesСовременная Европа, 2022
In the period under review, several significant events took place that resulted in a broad socio-political crisis in British politics. General elections were held four times including two snap elections.
T.V. Nazaruk
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We in Scotland have to make our stand for pure Liberalism: John M. Bannerman and Scottish Politics, 1932-1968

open access: yesScottish Studies
This article assesses the political career of John M. Bannerman from his entry into Scottish politics in the early 1930s until his final speeches in the House of the Lords in the late 1960s.
Ewen A. Cameron
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