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Higher Education and the Referendum on Scottish Independence [PDF]

The Political Quarterly, 2015
AbstractDuring the course of the referendum campaign, the Scottish government argued that free tuition for Scottish and EU students symbolised Scotland's preference for universal services and was intrinsically fairer than the ‘marketised’ systems operating in the rest of the UK.
Riddell, Sheila, Minty, Sarah, Weedon, Elisabet, Hunter Blackburn, Lucy   +3 more
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Television framing of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum [PDF]

, 2016
The frames identified in the coverage of the 2014 Scottish referendum are here applied to analyse the coverage of the 2016 EU referendum coverage of BBC's Reporting Scotland daily bulletin.
Dekavalla, Marina
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The Continuation of Politics in the Courtroom: Scotland and Strategic Litigation

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2022
In 2018 and 2019, two bombshell judgements were handed down by Scottish courts, in the Wightman reference and Cherry/Miller 2 case. Both have raised the question of the attitude of Scottish judges in the context of Brexit.
Juliette Ringeisen Biardeaud
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Le traitement médiatique du référendum de 2014 pour l’indépendance de l’Écosse : de la comparaison analytique à la récupération politique

Études Écossaises, 2023
Based on a corpus of newspaper articles, this paper aims at analyzing the way in which the Quebecois press saw the referendum that took place on the independence of Scotland in September 2014.
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
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From One Referendum to the Other: the Scottish Dimension to the Debate over Europe

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
This paper examines the role played by the European issue in the Scottish referendum campaign, especially the way the SNP tried to use it to its advantage.
Pauline Schnapper
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La pratique référendaire en Écosse avant 2014

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The 2014 referendum was the fourth referendum organized in Scotland since this type of popular consultation was introduced in Britain. The object of the first two polls (1975, 1979) was to seek popular acceptance for two Acts of Parliament that had been ...
Jacques Leruez
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Devolution, the Independence Referendum and Votes at 16 in Scotland: Holyrood, a Pioneer in Democracy Leading the Way for Westminster?

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
The Scottish Parliament enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds prior to the 2014 referendum on independence of Scotland from the UK. Scotland was among the very first nations in the world to lower the minimum voting age below 18.
Sarah Pickard
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Favouring a Disunited Kingdom? How Negative Perceptions of the EU-Referendum Relate to Individual Mobility and Collective Action Considerations

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2021
One consequence of the EU-referendum’s pro-Brexit outcome was a renewed call for Scottish independence. Supporting this call can be construed as a form of collective action Scots may engage in.
Lara Ditrich, Edit Z. Gedeon, Kai Sassenberg   +2 more
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The Strange Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum. Some Elements of Comparison between the Scottish and Catalan Cases

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum of 18 September 2014 was rather unique from an international perspective, as a comparison between the cases of Scotland and Catalonia clearly reveals.
Nathalie Duclos
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Territorialité politique, nationalisme et traversées constitutionnelles en Écosse

Études Écossaises, 2016
This paper intends to explore the nature of the nationalist ideology promoted by the SNP in light of the concept of territoriality. Indeed, the process of legislative devolution, which is representative of a crossing of the Anglo-Scottish border at ...
Arnaud Fiasson
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