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L'Économie d'une Écosse indépendante, de la rente pétrolière au Brexit

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
wiley   +1 more source

Tackling Poverty Across the United Kingdom. Devolution, Difference and Discourse

open access: yesIPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK welfare state is often considered as being highly centralised, yet the design and administration of UK social security involves significant spatial variations in law, policy, and practice. As such, where you live in the UK can affect the value of benefits and cash transfers you are entitled to, as well as how you experience benefit ...
Ruth Patrick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Can the Scottish Parliament Be Improved as a Legislature? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There will be a referendum on Scottish independence in 2014. The prospect of further constitutional change might prompt us to reconsider the role and influence of the Scottish Parliament as a legislature.
Cairney, Paul
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Better Together and the No Campaign: from Project Fear to Grace?

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Relationship Between Climatic Conditions and Personal Financial and Health Well‐Being

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We address an important research gap by quantifying the association between weather conditions (sunshine, rainfall, temperature anomalies) and individual financial, mental and physical health self‐assessments. We compile a unique dataset of >400,000$$ >\mathrm{400,000} $$ observations (1991–2018) by matching individual‐level data (covering 380
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scottish Referendum: The Second

open access: yes, 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.
Victoria Campbell (239881)
core   +1 more source

Politics, Poetry, People: an Overview of Contemporary Poetry Trends in the British Literary Landscape

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2019
The article deals primarily with the poetic discourse surrounding the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the post-referendum developments in the UK.
Evgeniia Zimina, Mariana Sargsyan
doaj   +1 more source

Responding to Information‐Based Regulation: A Behavioral Analysis of the UK's Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators increasingly rely on public information disclosure to influence organizational behaviors. Prior research is mixed on the effects of information‐based instruments in an environment of abundant online information. The study applies a behavioral perspective to examine how regulatory ratings shape the responses of regulated entities by ...
Panos Panagiotopoulos, Frances Bowen
wiley   +1 more source

Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.)

open access: yes, 2023
On November 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its judgment on whether the Scottish Parliament has legislative competence to introduce a Scottish Independence Referendum Bill (the Bill) to hold a referendum in Scotland asking the
Ulgen, Ozlem, Ozlem Ulgen
core   +1 more source

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