New Scotland, New Society? Are Social and Political Ties Fragmenting?

by Curtice, John; McCrone, David; Park, Alison; Paterson, Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9781902930350
• ISBN10: 1902930355
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-12
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

New Scotland, New Societyasks a series of vital questions regarding the attitudes and behavior of the Scots: are the ties that bind people to each other and to the democratic system fragmenting? How do people relate to social institutions such as the family and systems of morality? Is constitutional reform restoring that trust? Drawing on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and its predecessors, the overall aim of the book is to provide an independent account of public opinion in post-devolution Scotland.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Social Capital and Constitutional Reform	5	(28)
Lindsay Paterson
Rejecting Traditional Family Building? Attitudes to Cohabitation and Teenage Pregnancy in Scotland	33	(32)
Kerstin Hinds
Lynn Jamieson
Cohabitation and Marriage in Scotland: Attitudes, Myths and the Law	65	(27)
Anne Barlow
Scotland's Morals	92	(31)
Alison Park
Society and Democracy: the New Scotland	123	(19)
Paula Surridge
Devolution and Democracy: New Trust or Old Cynicism?	142	(24)
John Curtice
A Nation of Regions?	166	(30)
Catherine Bromley
David McCrone
Governing from the Centre: Ideology and Public Policy	196	(23)
Lindsay Paterson
Conclusions	219	(4)
Appendix Technical Aspects of the Surveys	223