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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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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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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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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 ...
McGarvey, Neil +3 more
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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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Open 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
Revue 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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ABEI 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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