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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Risk tolerance is fundamental to decision-making and behaviour. Here we show that individuals' tolerance of risk follows a weekly cycle. We observed this cycle directly in a behavioural experiment using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (Lejuez et al., 2002;
Jet G Sanders, Rob Jenkins
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting referendum results in the Big Data Era

Journal of Big Data, 2019
In addressing the challenge of Big Data Analytics, what has been of notable significance is the analysis of online search traffic data in order to analyze and predict human behavior.
Amaryllis Mavragani, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

IndyRef2? The thorny question of Scottish independence hasn’t gone away [PDF]

, 2016
As announced by Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, at the SNP conference last week, a second Independence Referendum Bill has been published in draft form by the Scottish government.
Thomson, Jeniffer
core  

Different Process, Same Outcome? The Problems of Within‐Party Sortition

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract A recent article in Political Quarterly argues for a ‘sortition of candidature’. We show that because political parties are not themselves socially representative, such a scheme would not result in a socially representative Parliament. Drawing on data from the Party Members Project, we show that while some demographic groups would be better ...
Philip Cowley, Paul Webb, Tim Bale
wiley   +1 more source

While the Scottish people may be on the brink of the unknown, the Welsh continue to prefer familiarity [PDF]

, 2014
Has the Scottish independence debate and the narrowing of the opinion polls ahead of the referendum stirred desire for an independence referendum in Wales?
Evans, Adam
core  

Scottish Referendum: The Second

, 2019
Scotland has long had a quarrelsome relationship with the United Kingdom. This has ultimately led to the destruction of the traditional Scottish way of life, when England and Scotland formed the United Kingdom in 1707. Since then, Scotland has effectively been under the rule of a nation that has different values and different goals.
openaire   +2 more sources

Policing the Environmental Crisis: Climate Protest, the State, and Law and Order

Constellations, EarlyView.
Oscar Talbot
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

STAGNATION OF THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE QUESTION [PDF]

Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
The article examines the causes of the political impasse facing the Scottish independence movement in 2024–2025. The authors offer a novel explanation for the persistence of independence demands despite the weakening of the Scottish National Party (SNP),
Elena V. Khakhalkina, Timofei R. Lesnykh
doaj   +1 more source