Democracy
The Fight for Scottish Democracy Rebellion and Reform in 1820
Author / Creator: Murray Armstrong
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused to reform it.
The Three Phases of Decolonisation : Lessons for Scotland
Author / Creator: Alf Baird
Media type: Article
Date published:
Self-determination is the process by which colonized and hence oppressed peoples become independent.
What an independent Scotland can learn from Denmark
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Lessons for an Independent Scotland: Denmark
After the Coronation: Understanding the UK as a monarchical state
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
The UK’s political system and state are defined by the values of pre-democracy
Sorted. A handbook for a better Scotland
Author / Creator: Commonweal
Media type: book
Date published: 2022
'Sorted' is a vision for a shared future in an independent Scotland. A future which puts all of us first. It looks at what's possible and describes how we can make independence and Scotland successful.
Political inequality
Author / Creator: B Ansell
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Political and economic inequalities are related.
Scottish Independence And The UK Government’s Unreasonable Refusal To Negotiate
Author / Creator: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The UK Government’s conduct in refusing to negotiate with Scotland on independence is reprehensible.
Renewing democracy through independence
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
People who live in Scotland have the right to choose how they should be governed
Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues
Author / Creator: Stephen Maxwell
Media type: Book
Date published: 2012
This book offers a case for independence under six main headings
Independence Is Not About Process Politics. It Is About Democracy.
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Referenda talk concentrates on process rather than substance, misses the big picture here of democracy, and overlooks the nuances of public opinion.
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.
A Very Modern Mythology
Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
The appeal of the royal family is in its projection of a reformist ethos, where everything can change, but remain firmly within the bounds of the established order.
Scotland's New Choice: Independence after Brexit
Author / Creator: Eve Hepburn
Media type: eBook
Date published: 2021
Opportunities and challenges surrounding the prospect of independence for Scotland in the light of changes since 2014.
The age of British decline begins
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
The state of democracy in the UK. There are two strands. The first is the yearning for the firm hand of authority. The second is a more historical fear of the potential implications of democracy that believes letting people take major decisions is misguided as they may make the 'wrong' decisions.
A Better Nation. The Challenges of Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: eBook
Date published: 2022
A Better Nation aims to go beyond the superficial divisions and media noise in order to address matters of real substance.
The Queen’s Jubilee Is The Time To Have A Debate About Britain’s Atrophied Democracy
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Blog
Date published:
The monarch comes from the core of what the Empire State..., and as long as it survives in its present form it validates and reinforces the continuation of the Empire State at home – entrenching the rotten, unreformed political system and culture which continues to fail us.
State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Date published: 2021
The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a multi national union in which the key elements of people, state, values and sovereignty are contested.
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Author / Creator: Jay Wiggan
Date published:
The Scottish government fuses nationalism with social wage and social investment concepts. It conjures up images of a prosperous, community led, egalitarian welfare state as a future reality. It recuperates “welfare” as a collective endeavour. It describes austerity as a poor distribution of resources between groups and within the UK as the “problem”.
Scotland, Brexit and Broken Promise of Democracy
Author / Creator: Klaus Stolz
Date published:
The perception of a democratic deficit began in the Thatcher premiership, long before Brexit. Scottish self government came to be positively linked with European intergation.
Brexit, Scotland, and the Continuing Divergence of Politics.
Author / Creator: M K Thompson
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2019
Differences of politics in Scotland and England leads to claims that the Scottish people are being governed against their will. This creates a constitutional crisis which has manifested in desires for self-government. Brexit contradicts the 2014 referendum assurances that only by rejecting independence could Scotland stay in the EU.