Scotland Reclaimed

Author : Murray Ritchie
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Elections
ISBN : 0854110771

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Scotland Reclaimed by Murray Ritchie Pdf

The inside story of Scotland's first General Election - a record of events in public and behind the scenes as witnessed by Murray Ritchie, Scottish political editor of The Herald newspaper. A personal record provides a study of how rival politicians and parties campaigned to win over electors and to impress public opinion through the media. Political strategists resorted to the black arts, placing unprecedented pressure on newspapers, as they conducted the toughest campaign in Scottish history. An account of how politicians reacted before the cameras and in private to the peaks and troughs of a fascinating campaign.

Author : Ewen Cameron
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748628254

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Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880 by Ewen Cameron Pdf

Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change--involvement in two world wars, imperial growth and decline, for example - from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to trends and movements in the economy, culture and society of the nation's regions--borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands. Underlying the history, and sometimes impelling its ambitions, are the evolution and growth of national self-confidence and identity which fundamentally affected Scotland's destiny in the last century. Dr Cameron ends by considering how such forces may transform it in this one. Like the period it describes this book has politics at its heart. The recent upsurge of scholarship and publication, backed by the author's extensive primary research, underpin its vivid and well-paced narrative.

Author : Schlesinger Philip Schlesinger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781474472340

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Open Scotland? by Schlesinger Philip Schlesinger Pdf

Scottish devolution brought high hopes for an open political culture. But how far have these been fulfilled? Open Scotland? argues that in the field of political communication the old, established ways of the British state still remain firmly in place. Westminster and Whitehall still cast long shadows over Edinburgh.This book offers the first full-scale coverage of how media, politicians and lobbyists interact in the new Scotland. Based on their exceptional first-hand access to the key players, Philip Schlesinger, David Miller and William Dinan have written an inside account of the struggles to establish the rules of the game for covering politics.They have talked to the journalists of Scotland's political media pack who are at the heart of the new political system and who have a decisive impact on the image of the Scottish Parliament and government. They have observed and interviewed the professional lobbyists and reveal their strategies for achieving a respectable image in Scottish public life. And they have analysed some of the key rows and the failures of news management inside Scotland's government.Open Scotland? offers an insight to the world of lobbyists, journalists and spin doctors, revealing the motivations behind the news stories in Scottish politics today.

Author : Torrance David Torrance
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474447843

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Standing Up for Scotland by Torrance David Torrance Pdf

David Torrance reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties that desired independent statehood. Rather, it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservative and Labour parties all attempting to harness Scottish national identity and nationalism between 1884 and 2014, often with the paradoxical goal of strengthening rather than ending the Union. The book combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to argue that these conceptions of Scottish nationhood had much more in common with each other than is commonly accepted.

Author : John MacAskill
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474436939

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Scotland's Foreshore by John MacAskill Pdf

Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizens

Author : David Arter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135768751

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The Scottish Parliament by David Arter Pdf

This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy with several features of a Scandinavian-style parliament. The basic research question, therefore, is: 'Has the Scottish Parliament in its first four-year term manifested a Scandinavian-style politics in the sense that there has been a high incidence of inter-party negotiation within Parliament?' The architects of the Scottish Parliament saw the committees as the motor of a 'new politics' and gave them extensive powers. Outside Austria, only the Swedish and Icelandic committees have comparable powers. Accordingly, the study sets out to describe and analyse the workings of the committees in the Scottish, Swedish and Icelandic Parliaments. The concluding chapter also discusses the operation of the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian committees.

Author : Rob Johns
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785900709

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Takeover by Rob Johns Pdf

Even before soaring to the apparently impossible challenge of an outright majority at Holyrood in 2011, the Scottish National Party had long dominated the political narrative in Scotland. With the independence referendum in 2014 and their near clean sweep in the general election the following year, the full force of the SNP's power was felt throughout the UK. Now, with the party's rivals still trailing limply in their wake, this new account by two established SNP-watchers explains just how they have stormed to victory, changing the face of Scottish - and British - politics for ever. Tracing the path from grassroots party of protest to professional, highly centralised electoral machine, Rob Johns and James Mitchell explore the differing leadership styles and often radical shifts in the party's image, from 'tartan Tories' to self-styled anti-austerity crusaders. Along the way, they analyse the internal battles between the leadership, members and activists; map the changing profile of the average SNP voter; and outline the new challenges that have come with increased electoral success. Engaging, impartial and above all insightful, Takeover charts the rise and rise of Scotland's biggest party and asks: where now for the SNP in the wake of a historic third successive victory?

Author : David Torrance
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857908469

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Nicola Sturgeon by David Torrance Pdf

A biography of the Scottish leader by an author with “an excellent eye for political detail” (Scotland on Sunday). Nicola Sturgeon became involved in politics as a teenager, and then began a law career in Glasgow. She would go on to become Scotland’s youngest parliamentary candidate in 1992, in her early twenties. Considered a rising star, she eventually reached the pinnacle of Scottish government as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party—the party she’d joined at the age of sixteen. This book explores her reputation for efficiency and shrewd political judgment, her family life, and her role in the country’s turbulent recent years with the campaign for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom and the Brexit vote. It is a portrait of a fascinating woman as well as an “illuminating appraisal” of her impressive career (Spectator).

Author : Scotland,James Campbell Irons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Municipal corporations
ISBN : HARVARD:HL53SQ

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The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 by Scotland,James Campbell Irons Pdf

Author : M. L. Parry,T. R. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000394047

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The Making of the Scottish Countryside by M. L. Parry,T. R. Slater Pdf

Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mine drainage
ISBN : UVA:X001273329

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Mine Drainage and Surface Mine Reclamation: Mine reclamation, abandoned mine lands, and policy issues by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472101136

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The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley Pdf

This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details of the lives of the rulers as well as their wives, consorts, pretenders, usurpers and regents and is a geographical guide to where all Britain's monarchs lived, ruled and died including their palaces, estates and resting places.

Author : Myra J. Giesen
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781843838067

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Curating Human Remains by Myra J. Giesen Pdf

"This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the UK to the ownership, care, storage, display and interpretation of human remains." -- back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555026988

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGALND by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121388835

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The Scottish Jurist by Anonim Pdf