Devolution
How devolution shaped modern Scotland: referendums, SNP dominance and a changed UK
Author / Creator: Adam Le Grice
Media type: Article
Date published:
The years that followed the SNP victory in the Scottish Parliament saw a radical change in the political landscape of Scotland and the UK
The SNP’s independence push: navigating public opinion
Author / Creator: Stephanie Luke
Media type: Article
Date published:
Stephanie Luke analyses UK in a Changing Europe’s latest polling by Redfield & Wilton. She highlights that the SNP will struggle to keep the Westminster seats it currently holds if the party focuses too much time on independence alone.
Scottish Parliament employment rights powers wise
Author / Creator: Ian McConnell
Media type: Newspaper article
Date published:
Trade unions have this week ramped up in a big way the drive to have powers over employment rights devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
Scottish independence referendum: role of the Supreme Court
Author / Creator: David Torrance
Media type: Article
Date published:
Yesterday (28 June 2022) Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, set out a “route map” to holding a second referendum on the question of Scottish independence.
This Insight looks at what the Scottish Government is proposing and related legal issues.
How have the institutions of UK devolution affected economic performance?
Author / Creator: Esmond Birnie
Media type: Article
Date published:
It is sometimes argued that the experience of devolution for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales implies that the regions of England need greater decentralisation to improve policy delivery and economic outcomes. But the evidence from the devolved nations after 25 years is much more ambiguous.
Territorial inequalities under devolution: do Scottish and Welsh residents perceive a gap between capital cities and their local communities?
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Devolved institutions risk (re-)creating new (real or perceived) gaps at lower territorial levels.
Scotland Can
Author / Creator: Our Scottish Future
Media type: Website
Date published:
A devolutionist website with interesting articles.
Scotland Can
Author / Creator: We Can
Media type: Website
Date published: 2024 -
If Scotland wants to carry out radical land reform, build a new health system, change the school starting age, create new welfare benefits, or get working on dozens of other issues, then there is nothing to stop us.
Devolution and the Labour Myth
Author / Creator: James Wilkie
Media type: Article
Date published: 2012
Establishment hostility [to devolution] reached its sordid peak with the orgy of corruption that was the 1979 referendum.
A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy
Author / Creator: Commission for the UK’s Future
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The Labour Party's Commission for the UK’s Future has little more than additional consultation on some matters.
Some constitutional cogitations from Cardiff
Author / Creator: Ciaran Martin
Media type: Lecture
Date published: 2022
Reform of the UK in the light of Anglo-centric British nationalism.
Can muscular unionism save the Union?
Author / Creator: Iain McLean
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not.
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
Brexit removed the external support for Devolution. The territorial tensions are made worse by the fact that majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland opposed it. There have been three responses: United Kingdom as a unitary state; to fragment into its nations; and to seek a Brexit with exceptions. Only Northern Ireland has been granted n exceptions.
The Smith Commission Report - Overview
Author / Creator: Scottish Parliament Information Centre
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
Smith Commission report is analysed by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission
Author / Creator: Scottish Liberal Democrats
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The 2014 Scottish Liberal Democrats proposal for a Federal UK
Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement
Author / Creator: UK Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2015
The UK Government response to the Smith Commission
The Smith Commission; COSLA Convention Item 3
Author / Creator: COSLA
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The COSLA review of the implications of the Smith Commission report for local government.
Report of the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament
Author / Creator: Smith Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
Text of the Smith Commission report
Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.