The Story of the Scottish Parliament : : The First Two Decades Explained / / Gerry Hassan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hassan, Gerry,
• MitwirkendeR: Arnott, Margaret,; Bennie, Lynn,; Biagi, Marco G.,; Convery, Alan,; Crichton, Torcuil,; Curtice, John,; Ferguson, Zoe,; Fraser, Murdo,; Gallagher, Jim,; Gibbs, Ewan,; Gillick, Ambrose,; Gow, David,; Hassan, Gerry,; Hughes, Kirsty,; Ivett, Lee,; Kerley, Richard,; Kidd, Colin,; Lamont, Johann,; McAngus, Craig,; McGarvey, Neil,; McMillan, Joyce,; Shephard, Mark,; St Denny, Emily,; Stolz, Klaus,; Torrance, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

How have Scotland’s first post-devolution decades been felt across the political landscape?Features analysis of the key political institutions and parties in ScotlandProvides a detailed chronology of the devolution eraIncludes perspectives from civil servants, campaigners and politicians including J...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables
• Notes on the Contributors
• INTRODUCTION Back to the Future: Exploring Twenty Years of Scotland’s Journey, Stories and Politics
• Part One. The Political Institutions and Environment
• ONE The Electorate and Elections
• TWO. Attitudes to Constitutional Change
• THREE. The Scottish Government
• FOUR The Scottish Civil Service
• FIVE The Scottish Parliament and ‘New Politics’ at Twenty
• SIX The Emergence of a Scottish Political Class
• SEVEN The Committee System of the Scottish Parliament
• EIGHT Scotland and Westminster and Continental Drift
• NINE British Political Tradition and Scottish Local Government
• TEN Public Spending and Taxation
• Part Two. Scotland’s Political Parties
• ELEVEN SNP: Devolution Winners
• TWELVE The Fall of the House of Scottish Labour
• THIRTEEN The Scottish Conservative Party: Wilderness to Recovery
• FOURTEEN The Liberal Democrats: From Coalition to the Margins
• FIFTEEN Greens: Radical and Relevant?
• SIXTEEN Socialism in a Cold Climate: The Radical Left since 1999
• Part Three. The Wider Environment
• SEVENTEEN Scotland’s Brexit Blues
• EIGHTEEN Europe
• NINETEEN Independence and Union Revisited: Recent Interpretations in Scottish History, Literature and Politics
• Part Four. Inside Politics
• TWENTY The Parliament Sits in the Land
• TWENTY-ONE Devolution: An Assessment
• TWENTY-TWO Inside the Changing Business of Governing Scotland
• TWENTY-THREE The Journey of the Scottish Parliament to Maturity
• TWENTY-FOUR From Think Twice to Radical Devolution: A Scottish Conservative Movement
• TWENTY-FIVE The Scottish Parliament: Past Dreams, Present Realities, Possible Futures
• Appendix: A Chronology of Scottish Politics and Devolution, 1997–2019
• Index