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Narrating Devolution: Politics and/as Scottish Fiction [PDF]
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 This article explores the tensions between the competing cultural and political narratives of devolution, anchored around James Robertson’s state- of-the-nation novel And the Land Lay Still (2010).
Scott Hames
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We in Scotland have to make our stand for pure Liberalism: John M. Bannerman and Scottish Politics, 1932-1968 [PDF]
Scottish StudiesThis 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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Bottom-up versus Top-down Campaigning at the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 [PDF]
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 saw one of the longest political campaigns in modern UK politics. The referendum saw the formation of a hybrid Yes campaign that combined modern campaigning techniques with a large, activist grassroots that ...
Peter Lynch
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Pressure Politics and the ‘Scottish Policy Style’ [PDF]
, 2013 Chapter 5 suggests that the Scottish Parliament did not foster new and effective forms of deliberative and participatory democracy. It highlights the similarities between the Westminster and Holyrood systems and argues that, in both, most policy is ...
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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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Assessing Scottish Democracy [PDF]
, 2008 First paragraph: As noted in Chapter 2 the SCC Final Report (1995), the Yes-Yes 1997 Referendum campaign and the Consultative Steering Group Report (1999) all emphasized an aspiration of a new style of democracy and politics in Scotland.
Neil Mcgarvey +3 more
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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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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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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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