The Story of the Scottish Parliament Reflections on the First Two Decades

by Hassan, Gerry

• ISBN13: 9781474454902
• ISBN10: 1474454909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-09-30
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Table of Contents

Frontmater: Tables; Contributors; Introduction: A New Political Landscape?, Gerry Hassan
Section One: The Political Institutions and Environment
1. The Electorate and Elections, John Curtice
2. Attitudes to Constitutional Change, Alisa Henderson
3. The Scottish Government, Margaret Arnott
4. The Scottish Civil Service, Zoe Ferguson
5. The Scottish Parliament and 'new politics' at twenty, Emily St. Denny
6. The Emergence of a Scottish Political Classes, Klaus Stolz
7. The Committee System of the Scottish Parliament, Mark Shephard
8. Scotland and Westminster and continental drift, Torcuil Crichton
9. British political tradition and Scottish Local Government, Neil McGarvey
10. Public Spending and Taxation, Richard Kerley
Section Two: Scotland's Political Parties
11. SNP: Devolution Winners, Craig McAngus
12. The Fall of the House of Labour, Gerry Hassan
13. The Scottish Conservative Party: Wilderness to Recovery, Alan Convery
14. The Liberal Democrats: From Coalition to the Margins, David Torrance
15. Scottish Greens: Radical and Relevant?, Lynn Bennie
16. Socialism in a Cold Climate: The Radical Left since 1999, Ewan Gibbs;
Section Three: The Wider Environment
17. Brexit, Kirsty Hughes
18. Europe, David Gow
19. Independence and Union Revisited: Recent Interpretations in Scottish History, Literature and Politics, Colin Kidd
Section Four: Inside Politics
20. The Parliament sits in the Land, Ambrose Gillick and Lee Ivett
21. Devolution: An Assessment, Jim Gallagher
22. Inside the Changing Business of Governing Scotland, Marco G. Biagi
23. The Journey of the Scottish Parliament to Maturity, Johann Lamon
24. From Think Twice to Radical Devolution: A Conservative Movement, Murdo Fraser
25. The Scottish Parliament: Past Dreams, Present Realities, Possible Futures, Joyce McMillan
Appendix: A Chronology of Scottish Politics and Devolution 1997-2019, Gerry Hassan.