A Diverse Assembly : : The Debate on a Scottish Parliament / / Lindsay Paterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Paterson, Lindsay,
• MitwirkendeR: Ascherson, Neal,; Bogdanor, Vernon,; Brittan, Leon,; Brown, Alice,; Buchanan-Smith, Alick,; Cook, Robin,; Crawford, Robert,; Crick, Bernard,; Dalyell, Tam,; Dewar, Donald,; Douglas Home, Alec,; Duffy, Tim,; Forsyth, Michael,; Fry, Michael,; Gray, Charles,; Harvie, Christopher,; Heath, Edward,; Jones, Peter,; Kellas, James G,; Lang, Ian,; Lawson, Alan,; Leicester, Graham,; Lindsay, Isabel,; Lloyd, John,; MacCormick, Neil,; Mackintosh, John P,; Mackintosh, John P.,; Martin, David,; Massie, Allan,; Maxwell, Stephen,; McCrone, David,; McKenna, Rosemary,; McMillan, Joyce,; Millar, David,; Nairn, Tom,; Paton, H. J.,; Pym, Francis,; Richard, Christine,; Sillars, Jim,; Smith, John,; Stewart, Allan,; Strachan, Yvonne,; Taylor, Teddy,; Thatcher, Margaret,; Wright, Esmond,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

The 1997 Scottish Referendum confirmed the wish of the people of Scotland for their first Parliament in almost 300 years. In A Diverse Assembly Lindsay Paterson draws together for the first time a collection of the key arguments for and against the reinstating of a Scottish Parliament. Gathered from...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• A Scottish Assembly
• Introduction
• Part I: Beginnings, 1968-74
• Introduction
• The Claim of Scotland
• Why Enmity and Conflict?
• The Declaration of Perth
• The Three Dreams of Scottish Nationalism
• The Government of Scotland
• Forms and Consequences of Federalism
• An Assembly
• A Scheme of Legislative Devolution
• The New Appeal of Nationalism
• Part II: The Devolution Years, 1974-83
• Introduction
• Scottish Government
• A Parliament for Scotland
• The Devolution of the Intellectuals
• Our Changing Democracy
• Nationalism, Community and Democracy
• Speech to Parliament
• The Slide to Independence
• The Trouble with John P. Mackintosh
• Why it must be 'No' when Assembly is put to the Vote
• The Conservative Party and Devolution
• Speech and Interview
• The Defeat of Devolution
• Interview: Portrait of a Devolutionist
• Part III: Reactions to Thatcherism, 1983-92
• Introduction
• Interview: Devolution
• Scotland - Omega One
• Towards a Constitutional Convention
• The Devolution Maze
• A Claim of Right for Scotland
• Lecture
• Unrepentant Gradualism
• The Government of Scotland
• Church and Nation: a Catholic View
• Women's Issues and the Scottish Assembly
• Independence in Europe
• Thatcherism in a Cold Climate
• The Implications of a Scottish Parliament for Women's Organisations in Scotland
• The Scottish Constitutional Convention
• Part IV: Towards the Parliament, 1992-7
• Introduction
• The Scottish Question
• Taking Stock of Taking Stock
• To Make the Parliament of Scotland a Model for Democracy
• The Governance of Scotland
• A Scottish Parliament: Friend or Foe to Local Government?
• Scottish Local Government in Europe
• Fundamentals for a New Scotland Act
• Scotland's Next Step
• Sovereignty after the Election
• Three-level Path to Flourish in Europe
• Scotland's Parliament
• What's the Story?
• Losing Sight of Tinkerbell
• Don't Wreck the Heritage we all Share
• Free, on our Own Terms
• Some Poetry, Pipers and Politics for the People
• References
• Index