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Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Voting at 16 – Lessons for the Future from the Scottish Referendum [PDF]
Scottish Affairs, 2017 The 2014 Referendum on Scottish independence raised many issues about the future of Scotland. It also produced an innovation as regards the electoral process by making 16 years the minimum age of participation. This article examines issues surrounding the voting age and draws on a schools-based study, which shed light on teacher and pupil opinion ...
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Rebuilding the Women's Estate: Imaginary Penalities in Scottish Imprisonment, 2012–2023
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores a period during which the Scottish Prison Service aspired to a ‘golden age’ for imprisonment, tracing how a narrative of progress shaped a decade of struggle to close Scotland's national prison for women: ‘Cornton Vale’.
Cara Hunter
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The rhetoric of Alex Salmond and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum [PDF]
British Politics, 2017 This is the first article to examine the rhetoric of Alex Salmond using the Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos) during the 2014 independence referendum. The article examines Salmond’s persuasive style, his political discourses and construction of a specific form of Scottishness between January and September 2014.
McAnulla, SD, Crines, A
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Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
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On the Threshold of Independence? Scotland One Year after the SNP Election Victory [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2008 In 2007, marking both the tercentenary of the Anglo-Scottish Union and the tenth anniversary of the successful Devolution Referendum, the May elections caused a political earthquake, breaking the nearly five decades of hegemony of Scottish Labour at the ...
Eberhard Bort
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Yes or No? Older people, politics and the Scottish Referendum in 2014
Research on Ageing and Social Policy, 2018 In this article we report on the issues, experiences and patterns of response to the independence referendum with particular reference to older voters.
Jim Crowther, Ellen Boeren, Alan Mackie
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Why has the United Kingdom repeatedly restored substantive compatibility with European Union (EU) regulatory norms despite formal withdrawal? This article introduces the concept of asymmetric regulatory embeddedness (ARE) to explain post‐membership governance in highly integrated sectors. ARE captures the structural condition in which a former
George Asiamah
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014 Welcome to the September 2014 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care. It's a pivotal time here in Scotland with the Scottish Independence Referendum fast approaching.
Laura Steckley
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L'Économie d'une Écosse indépendante, de la rente pétrolière au Brexit
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 The SNP wants Scotland to become independent chiefly on economic grounds. Scottish politicians ought to be able to run Scotland's natural and human resources to boost growth and meet social aims. Yet in 2014 when the referendum on Scotland's independence
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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