The Story of the Scottish Parliament : : The First Two Decades Explained / / Gerry Hassan.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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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