Scottish Government
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Scotland already has most of the public finance administration structure in place. A central bank needs t be established to handle the national finances. It will need to be expanded to take on the roles currently reserved to Westminster.
Full answer here: Public finance in an independent Scotland
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Preparation is needed even before a referendum. Recruitment, project management, establishment of currency, creation of regulatory institutions, etc, all need to begin as soon as possible. It is projected the work and negotiations on independence will take about three years to complete independence.
Full answer here: Managing the work needed to become independent
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People need to know what they are voting for in a referendum. The machinery of governing can be worked out during the independence negotiations.
Full answer here: Establishing the outlines of independence before a referendum
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The estimated costs of setting up an independent government are estimated at £25 billion, of which about £15 billion will be from assets transferred.
Full answer here: The costs of independence and the work required to set up new governing systems
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.
First Ministers and political leadership: Part 2
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scottish politics, the parliament, the nature of government and the role of First Minister changed when the SNP inched past the Labour Party in May 2007 and formed its first ever administration.
First Ministers and political leadership: Part 1
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
A review of the first 25 years of Scottish Government first ministers.
Improving emissions assessment of Scottish Government spending decisions and the Scottish Budget
Author / Creator: James Black
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Changes are required to enable the Scottish Government to deliver its climate change objectives.
Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2021/22: attitudes data
Author / Creator: Alex Scholes
Media type: Report
Date published:
This survey report focuses on attitudes to government, the economy and public services.
Building a New Scotland –an Outline
Author / Creator: Jim Osborne
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2020
Jim Osborne's view of what an independent Scotland might look like in government and the economic policies.
We have devolution from Westminster but not from Holyrood: Scotland as a centralised state
Author / Creator: James Mitchell
Media type: Article
Date published:
James Mitchell decries the lack of local power in local government and advocates radical reform.
Scotland the Bold
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: November 2016
For self-government to have any meaning it...requires that we begin to talk honestly and maturely about Scotland's future and some of the difficult choices we will have to make; reflecting on where we have come from, what we are proud of, mistakes, and how we do things better in the future.
Intergovernmental Relations: Two Decades of Co-operation, Competition, and Constitutional Change
Author / Creator: Jim Gallagher
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Constitutional change has been a defining feature of Scottish and UK relations over the last ten years
The ‘Scottish Approach’ to Policymaking
Author / Creator: Paul Cairney
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The Scottish government approach to policymaking is distinctive in the way it uses evidence to inform policy and policymaking.
Devolution
Author / Creator: Malcolm Harvey
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Devolution has caused a de facto decentralisation of the UK, although such arrangements as the Sewel Convention can be over turned by the Westminster government.
A Holyrood you trust or Westminster you do not? Open Minds on Independence #23
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: News Media
Date published:
How does the Scottish Government score in the Worldwide Governance Indicators?
1: Voice and Accountability - good
2: Political Stability - good. Better than England
3:Government Effectiveness - good and more trusted than England
4: Regulatory Quality - good although an independent Scotland would need some new regulatory bodies
5: Rule of Law - good. It has a well-regarded legal sysem
Building Scotland’s future now: A new approach to financing public investment
Author / Creator: Iain Cairns
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2017?
Reclaiming investment is a necessary task. The value in the concept of investment is that it is exactly the opposite of the sort of speculative, short-termism in economic thinking that dominates the minds of ‘investment’ bankers.
A Citizens’ Assembly for the Scottish Parliament
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2020?
A Citizens’ Assembly will gather citizens’ opinions, enabling political decisions to be made after getting citizens’ considered and informed judgement. The overarching benefit of a Citizens’ Assembly in the Scottish Parliament would be a profound increase in the legitimacy of Scottish laws .