Devolution in Scotland
Reinvigorating Devolution: Why Scotland Needs a New Debate on Power and Place
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
power and prosperity have become ever more concentrated in and around Edinburgh.
Making Decentralization Work: The Politics of Implementation
Author / Creator: Javier Martínez-Cantó
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
To what extent are decentralisation agreements implemented
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
People do not perceive devolution gains for their local communities, particularly if located in rural and peripheral areas.
Devolution within devolution? A SWOT analysis of introducing combined authorities to Scotland
Author / Creator: Janice Morphet
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Should Scotland adopt mayoral combined or strategic authorities on the English model?
Reinvigorating Devolution Enhancing Central-Local Relations in Scotland
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Despite devolution, Scotland's territorial imbalances have widened with power and wealth increasingly concentrated around Edinburgh.
Scotland, Catalonia and the 'right' to self- determination
Author / Creator: Neil Davidson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2016
How doe the independence movements in Catalonia and Scotland compare?
Navigating the Scottish Political Landscape: An Analysis of BBC Scotland in the Independence Era
Author / Creator: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-923X.13362
Media type: Article
Date published:
This essay examines the complex relationship between the BBC and Scotland's evolving political landscape, shedding light on the challenges faced by the broadcaster since the inception of devolution in 1999 and particularly the 2014 independence referendum.
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
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.
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.