Political Parties
Confronting reality: Why the independence conversation must change
Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Analysing the crisis in the SNP and the future of the independence movement [during the leadership contest of 2023]
Downfall: How Class Contradictions Ended Sturgeon’s Dismal Rule
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Nicola Sturgeon should not be eulogised as some benign influence on Scottish politics. She ran-down the independence movement, and presided over the decline of Scottish society, argues David Jamieson.
The SNP’s new fundamentalism
Author / Creator: James Mitchell
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Fundamentalist/pragmatist tension has been at the heart of the Scottish National Party since its foundation.
Scottish National Party Leaders
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2016
Scottish National Party Leaders examines all the senior figures for the first time, and is essential reading for anyone curious about how this former fringe party evolved into a political phenomenon, changing not only the face of Scottish politics, but British politics as well.
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2012
This book addresses, examines and analyses the last thirty years of Scottish Labour
A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A Nation Changed? Provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office.
The Political Class in Scotland
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Date published: 2020
Scottish MSPs and MPs have become more middle class and professional politicans since Devolution
Religion and Political Parties
Author / Creator: Graham Walker
Media type: Book
Date published:
Catholicism and Protestantism have had allegiance to different parties. The change of the catholic community to the SNP has had significant effects.
Smaller Parties
Author / Creator: Alistair Clark
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The effect of small parties has been to act as trailblazers for some developments but with little long term effect.
The Scottish National Party
Author / Creator: Lynn Bennie
Date published: 2020
The SNP’s ability to adapt to devolution has been key to its success, and has involved transformation of the party on a scale few political organizations experience.
The Scottish Labour Party
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Date published: 2020
The recent history of the Scottish Labour Party is traced and its prospects analysed.
The Scottish Conservative Party
Author / Creator: Alan Convery
Date published: 2020
The 20th century history of the Conservative Party and its view of devolution.
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