The Story of the Scottish Parliament: The First Two Decades Explained

ISBN-13: 9781474454896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 322 str.

Gerry Hassan

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Tables; Contributors; Introduction: A New Political Landscape?, Gerry Hassan; Section One: The Political Institutions and Environment; 1. The Electorate and Elections, John Curtice; 2. Attitudes to Constitutional Change, Alisa Henderson; 3. The Scottish Government, Margaret Arnott; 4. The Scottish Civil Service, Zoe Ferguson; 5. The Scottish Parliament and ‘new politics’ at twenty, Emily St. Denny; 6. The Emergence of a Scottish Political Classes, Klaus Stolz; 7. The Committee System of the Scottish Parliament, Mark Shephard; 8. Scotland and Westminster and continental drift, Torcuil Crichton; 9. British political tradition and Scottish Local Government, Neil McGarvey; 10. Public Spending and Taxation, Richard Kerley; Section Two: Scotland’s Political Parties; 11. SNP: Devolution Winners, Craig McAngus; 12. The Fall of the House of Labour, Gerry Hassan; 13. The Scottish Conservative Party: Wilderness to Recovery, Alan Convery; 14. The Liberal Democrats: From Coalition to the Margins, David Torrance; 15. Scottish Greens: Radical and Relevant?, Lynn Bennie; 16. Socialism in a Cold Climate: The Radical Left since 1999, Ewan Gibbs; Section Three: The Wider Environment; 17. Brexit, Kirsty Hughes; 18. Europe, David Gow; 19. Independence and Union Revisited: Recent Interpretations in Scottish History, Literature and Politics, Colin Kidd; Section Four: Inside Politics; 20. The Parliament sits in the Land, Ambrose Gillick and Lee Ivett; 21. Devolution: An Assessment, Jim Gallagher; 22. Inside the Changing Business of Governing Scotland, Marco G. Biagi; 23. The Journey of the Scottish Parliament to Maturity, Johann Lamont; 24. From Think Twice to Radical Devolution: A Conservative Movement, Murdo Fraser; 25. The Scottish Parliament: Past Dreams, Present Realities, Possible Futures, Joyce McMillan; Appendix: A Chronology of Scottish Politics and Devolution 1997-2019, Gerry Hassan.