Politics
Spring
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
SPRING. The project has been a long time in the curating and draws on radical and utopian ideas from around Europe and further afield. The idea is the brainchild of Pat Kane and Indra Adnan
Nationalism & the Far Right
Author / Creator: Nationalism & the Far Right
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2023
The far right in the context of nationalism.
Part 1: The Starmer Project
Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Analysing the meaning and mission of the Labour leadership
A major opportunity for Labour?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
What is the position of the Scottish Labour Party in electoral opportunity?
Scottish elections: young people more likely to vote if they started at 16
Author / Creator: Jan Eichhorn
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
"[ in 2014] Newly enfranchised young people voted in greater numbers than slightly older peers. Social class differences in voting habits were much less pronounced among 16- and 17-year-olds in Scotland"
Political inequality
Author / Creator: B Ansell
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Political and economic inequalities are related.
The methods of Russian interference in Scottish politics
Author / Creator: George Allison
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
One of the key methods used by Russia to interfere in Scottish politics is through cyber-attacks.
Lobbying in Scotland
Author / Creator: Grant Thoms
Media type: Video
Date published: 2022
The use of lobbying in the independence campaign
Electoral reform consultation
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
Possible improvements to electoral law are set out including candidacy, voting, and electoral administration.
Opinion polling for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
Author / Creator: Wikipedia
Media type: Statistics
Date published: 2022
Polling and results for and of the 2021 Scottish Government election.
Can Brown save UK democracy?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Review of Gordon Brown's political views from radical left to elder statesman.
Short Life Working Group on Facilitating Peaceful Assemblies: report
Author / Creator: Dominic Bryan
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Application of human rights is at the core of maintaining peaceful assemblies.
The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History
Author / Creator: Luke Savage
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
"The Dead Centre, a collection of essays by the Jacobin writer Luke Savage, probes the afterlife of Blairism—or, rather, its variants in Canada and the US. Gone is the hegemonic swagger of the Clinton generation. What we have now is a feeble rehash of the Third Way. Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau may think of themselves as hard-headed pragmatists ready to make painful political compromises for the sake of progress.
A Natural Fit? The Greens in Government
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Blog
Date published:
the decision of the Scottish Greens ... to take two junior ministerial positions in the SNP-led Scottish Government does not seem to have done them any harm at all.
The Scottish Political System
Author / Creator: James G Kellas
Media type: Book
Date published: 1989
"The enduring [Kellas] thesis is the notion of a Scottish political system. ...The orthodox view had been that the UK was unitary and uniform apart from the odd detail and embellishment." Bella Caledonia.
Scottish independence needs to offer “a shining city on a hill”
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Blog
Date published:
Previous generations have shown...ambition and intent when faced with what seemed insurmountable problems. It falls to us now to rise to the challenges of our age and make that future Scotland real.
The People's Flag and the Union Jack An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2019
The Labour Party has and continues to be a British party and this will matter for the forseeable future.
Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: eBook
Date published: 2019
Politics took a decisive turn twenty years ago with the birth of the modern Scottish Parliament. People in Scotland want to ‘make a difference’ and build a better future. Scotland the Brave? offers both an acute assessment of where we are today and a route map to the future.
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?