Politics
Sceptical Scot
Author / Creator: Sceptical Scot
Media type: Website
Date published: 2014-
These pages are for all who care about Scotland’s future, regardless of how they vote: for party, independence/union, EU/Brexit. Sceptical Scot aims to provide a forum that is both broader and deeper than current online/print offers with a rich diet of well-researched, polemical, thought-provoking writing.
Green Politics
Author / Creator: Antje Brown
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Scottish decision makers shy away from a determined green approach. Can Green ambitions and national identity politics be pursued together?
Ethnic Minorities and Political Citizenship in Scotland
Author / Creator: Emma Hill
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
There is a gap between the ‘aspirational pluralism’ espoused by political elites, and Scotland’s record on the representation of ethnic minorities in politics.
Youth Politics in Scotland: Participation and Inclusion
Author / Creator: Iain MacLeod
Date published: 2020
A look at the effects of reducing voting age and efforts to increase participation of youth in politics.
Nationality and National Identity
Author / Creator: David McCrone
Media type: book
Date published: 2020
National identity is best thought of as a cultural prism through which ‘politics’ is interpreted, and helps to explain why political behaviour in Scotland and England has diverged in the last thirty years.
New Scottish government: key takeaways from the SNP deal with the Greens
Author / Creator: Lynn Bennie
Media type: News Media
Date published:
The parties are bound by a shared belief in Scottish independence, and the deal reinforces their intent to secure a second referendum. But they are each free to develop their own vision of independence because they have different perspectives on what an independent Scotland would look like