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Title Page -- Contents -- Author biographies -- Chapter 1: Leadership of the SNP - James Mitchell and Gerry Hassan -- Chapter 2: Leadership in perspective - Mike Russell -- Chapter 3: John MacCormick - Malcolm Petrie -- Chapter 4: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham - Cliff Williamson -- Chapter 5: Sir Alexander MacEwen - Professor Ewen Cameron -- Chapter 6: Andrew Dewar Gibb - Catriona M. M. Macdonald -- Chapter 7: William Power - Margery Palmer McCulloch -- Chapter 8: Douglas Young - Gordon Pentland -- Chapter 9: Bruce Watson - Roderick Watson -- Chapter 10: Robert McIntyre - Richard Finlay -- Chapter 11: James Halliday - Paula Somerville -- Chapter 12: Arthur Donaldson - Ewen Angus Cameron -- Chapter 13: William Wolfe - Christopher Harvie -- Chapter 14: Gordon Wilson - Peter Lynch -- Chapter 15: Alex Salmond (Act I) - Murray Ritchie -- Chapter 16: John Swinney - Douglas Fraser -- Chapter 17: Alex Salmond (Act II) - James Mitchell -- Chapter 18: Nicola Sturgeon - Mandy Rhodes -- Chapter 19: Winnie Ewing - Robbie Dinwoodie -- Chapter 20: Margo MacDonald - Isobel Lindsay -- Chapter 21: Jim Sillars - Gerry Hassan -- Chapter 22: Donald Stewart - Eilidh MacPhail -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright -- Advertisement

Sets the Scottish independence referendum in context, exploring the questions of national identity, everyday public policy, structures of government and constitutional politics, drawing on a range of sources to illustrate why the Scottish Question can never be answered definitively.

This text explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the UK. It highlights the importance of the English dimension and the role that England's territorial politics played in constitutional debates

This paper assesses the accuracy of individuals' expectations of their financial circumstances, as reported in the British Household Panel Survey, as predictors of outcomes and identifies what factors influence their reliability. As the data are qualitative bivariate ordered probit models, appropriately identified, are estimated to draw out the differential effect of information on expectations and realisations. Rationality is then tested and we seek to explain deviations of realisations from expectations at a micro-economic level, possibly with reference to macroeconomic shocks. A bivariate regime-switching ordered probit model, distinguishing between states of rationality and irrationality, is then estimated to identify whether individual characteristics affect the probability of an individual using some alternative model to rationality to form their expectations.

Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasised the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.

James Mitchell presents a series of biographical sketches and interviews of more than thirty Maine women who have all carved out meaningful careers for themselves. The women shared their stories and dreams with Mitchell to celebrate their and other women''s accomplishments. Although their stories and fields of endeavor - ranging from commercial fishing (Linda Greenlaw), to writing (Kate Barnes), to government service (Chellie Pingree) - are different, the women all celebrate the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. What they have in common is intelligence, passion, enthusiasm, and a firm

This article puts the 2023 SNP leadership contest in the context of the changing nature of party leadership, strategy to achieve independence and the backdrop to Nicola Sturgeon's resignation. The SNP has experienced a radical change in its internal organisation with power concentrated in the leadership and the hollowing out of its internal democratic structures. Each candidate rejected Sturgeon's proposal that the next UK election should be used as a 'de facto' referendum but differed in how prepared the SNP was for a referendum. Efforts to achieve a smooth transition to the outgoing leader's preferred candidate were undermined when two others stepped forward. In the battle to frame the debate, Humza Yousaf sought to present himself as socially liberal and Kate Forbes, his main opponent, as socially conservative. Forbes initially struggled with this framing but gained ground as the internal party matters rose to prominence and public policy failings came to the fore during the contest with her 'continuity will not cut it' theme. Ash Regan, having resigned as a Minister under Nicola Sturgeon, offered robust criticisms especially of the SNP Government's handling of gender recognition. The contest became as much a vote of confidence in the outgoing leader as a choice about her successor.

Thailand: Die Entstehung der Gelbhemden- und Rothemdenbewegung läutete ein Jahrzehnt voll neuer, facettenreicher Protestmusik aus beiden politischen Lagern ein. Der Militärputsch 2014 brachte diese Entwicklung jedoch fast völlig zum Erliegen.

AbstractThe Scottish and European Questions have become intertwined over time. A European turn in Scottish politics became evident from the late 1980s when public opinion moved in favour of the European Communities/Union. The Scottish National Party (SNP) became a leading advocate of EC/EU membership with Europe's four freedoms allowing it to dismiss accusations of separatism. Scotland voted in favour of Remain in the Brexit referendum, adding to existing tensions in UK‐Scottish government relations. The institutions and procedures of intergovernmental relations which were designed to cope with tensions are being tested as never before under devolution. The assertion of UK power in these relations has undermined claims made by David Cameron to pursue a 'respect agenda' and commitments made immediately after the independence referendum. But while this evidence of divergent views on such a significant matter creates potential challenges for the UK union, it also creates new challenges for the SNP. The prospect of a hard Brexit raises the issue of separatism once more, with a choice of either remaining in the EU but separate from the rest of the UK (rUK), or remain in a separatist UK.