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The Scottish constitutional issue and the 2014 referendum
2018Chapter 3 provides historical background to the case study analysed in subsequent chapters by looking at the historical events that led to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It offers a summary of how the Scottish constitutional issue developed particularly in the second half or the 20th century, the movement for devolution in the 1990s, the ...
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Stakeholder citizenship: the complexities of Polish migrants’ citizenship attachments in the context of the Scottish independence referendum [PDF]
Citizenship Studies, 2016 This article focuses on the experiences of Scotland's largest foreign-born minority group, namely Poles, in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.
Emilia Pietka-Nykaza, Derek Mcghee
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Scottish Affairs, 2016
And the winner was… devo-max. It was not on the ballot paper; it received just a handful of spoiled votes; but it won.So maybe the two-option, yes-or-no ballot was not the most appropriate decision-making methodology. Rather, a three-option poll might have been the catalyst for a more subtle debate and a more accurate outcome, while a preferential vote
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And the winner was… devo-max. It was not on the ballot paper; it received just a handful of spoiled votes; but it won.So maybe the two-option, yes-or-no ballot was not the most appropriate decision-making methodology. Rather, a three-option poll might have been the catalyst for a more subtle debate and a more accurate outcome, while a preferential vote
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The Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014
2021The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s was followed by significant support for the pro-independence SNP. A devolved Scottish Parliament was established in 1999, which unionists hoped would undermine support for independence. However, in 2011 the SNP secured an overall majority, and the UK government accepted that an independence referendum should ...
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Scottish Independence Referendum: Risky or Not?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017On September 18th, 2014, with a historic 84.7% turnout, Scottish voters declared their wish to stay as part of the UK with 55.3% No versus 44.7% Yes votes. During the period that leads to the referendum both sides made financial and economic claims that effected the actual outcome.
Mehmet F. Dicle, Betul Dicle
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The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014
Journal of Law and Society, 2014On 18 September, in a historic referendum, the people of Scotland voted by 55.3 per cent to 44.7 per cent to remain in the United Kingdom. This article provides an immediate response. It is inevitably provisional and broadbrush in character and cannot cover all of the varied and conflicting perspectives on the referendum and its consequences; it is ...
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The 2014 Referendum in the Scottish Press
Scottish Affairs, 2018This essay discusses how Scottish newspapers covered the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It suggests that, in a move away from the positions they had held in the previous decade, indigenous Scottish newspapers openly suggested there was a desire for change in the form of increased devolution.
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Scottish Referendum and Future of British State
World Economy and International Relations, 2015The Scottish referendum occupies a special place in the row of events determining the very essence of the current political transformations in the United Kingdom, and is bound to influence both the future of the British statehood and the long-term development of British political institutions.
S. Peregudov, I. Semenenko
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International reactions to the Scottish referendum
International Affairs, 2014The referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country will be held on 18 September 2014. This article reflects on the evolution of foreign governments' attitudes towards the referendum since its confirmation in October 2012, and on their expectations should a yes vote result.
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The Scottish Referendum: The View from Italy and Sardinia
Scottish Affairs, 2014Although there is little close understanding of Scotland's referendum in Italy, the fact of the referendum, and its result, are of great symbolic importance in current developments as to centre-region relations. Just as ‘devolution’ resonated in Italian politics in the 1990s, not least in the rise of the Lega Nord, so ‘independence’ has fuelled ...
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