Scottish Parliament

Author : Jim Johnson,James Mitchell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912387588

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The Scottish Parliament by Jim Johnson,James Mitchell Pdf

Jim Johnston and James Mitchell bring authors from various backgrounds together to discuss the Parliament's future. These voices include a feminist and equalities campaigner, the chairman of Brodies LLP and the President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, among many others. This short series of think pieces discusses vital issues such as the increased complexity of devolution, the Parliament's new fiscal and welfare powers and the need to respond to public expectations and demands. Interspersed throughout the book are a number of Dear Scottish Parliament... letters from young people across Scotland articulating their hopes and dreams for Scotland for the next 20 years. The Parliament has established itself as an accepted feature in Scotland's political landscape and there is little, if any, debate about its legitimacy as a representative body. At the same time, however, the goodwill towards the Parliament is likely to be tested as MSPs are faced with significant challenges over the next 20 years. This book explores some of these challenges and signposts key priorities in response.

Author : Hassan Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474454926

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Story of the Scottish Parliament by Hassan Gerry Hassan Pdf

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations. Bringing together the voices of ministers and advisers, leading political scientists and historians, commentators, journalists and former civil servants, it builds an authoritative account of what the Scottish Parliament has made of devolution and an essential guide to the powers Holyrood may need for Scotland to flourish in an increasingly uncertain world.

Author : Mark Lazarowicz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474433754

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Scottish Parliament by Mark Lazarowicz Pdf

Author : Keith M Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748628469

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History of the Scottish Parliament by Keith M Brown Pdf

This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2 the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3 the contributors have built on that foundation and taken advantage of the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to discuss a comprehensive range of key themes in the development of parliament. The editors, Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, have assembled a team of established and younger scholars who each discuss a theme that ranges over the entire six centuries of the parliament's existence. These include broad, interpretive chapters on each of the key political constituencies represented in parliament. Thus Roland Tanner and Gillian MacIntosh write on parliament and the crown, Roland Tanner and Kirsty McAlister discuss parliament and the church, Keith Brown addresses parliament and the nobility and Alan MacDonald examines parliament and the burghs. Cross-cutting themes are also analysed. The political culture of parliament is the subject of a chapter by Julian Goodare, while parliament and the law, political ideas and social control are dealt with in turn by Mark Godfrey, James Burns and Alastair Mann. Finally, parliament's own procedures are also discussed by Alastair Mann. The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the workings and significance of this important institution to the history of late medieval and early modern Scotland.

Author : Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781474454919

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Story of the Scottish Parliament by Gerry Hassan Pdf

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations. Bringing together the voices of ministers and advisers, leading political scientists and historians, commentators, journalists and former civil servants, it builds an authoritative account of what the Scottish Parliament has made of devolution and an essential guide to the powers Holyrood may need for Scotland to flourish in an increasingly uncertain world.

Author : Jean McFadden
Publisher : Lexis Nexis UK
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000051370633

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The Scottish Parliament by Jean McFadden Pdf

This concise yet comprehensive text provides an excellent introduction to the law of property. The second edition takes account of moveable as well as heritable property.

Author : Thomas AW Stewart
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912387595

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The Scottish Parliament in its Own Words by Thomas AW Stewart Pdf

As part of the Scottish Parliament Oral History Project, around 80 interviews were conducted with staff, MSPs and journalists, old and new, about their careers and experiences at the Scottish Parliament. This book compiles extracts from some of these interviews, detailing the institution's rich history. This is the story of the Scottish Parliament so far, telling its story through those who know it best. Through its comparatively short life, the Parliament has been tested. What was once an upstart institution, unsure of its place in the world, has now become an ingrained part of the nation's political landscape. Now is an ideal moment to take stock of the Parliament's 20-year history – to investigate its origins, its early days and how it has developed over the past two decades.

Author : Roland Tanner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061009497

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Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1567-1707 by Roland Tanner Pdf

"[Volume 2] describes its role in the reign of James VI and throughout the century between the unions of the crowns in 1603 and of the parliaments in 1707, a period of royal absenteeism, religious upheaval, revolutions, civil wars, and economic catastrophe."--Publisher description.

Author : Elaine E Sutherland
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780748687664

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Law Making and the Scottish Parliament by Elaine E Sutherland Pdf

A study of legislative developments in areas of law and policy devolved to the Scottish Parliament.

Author : David Arter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135768768

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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 : Alan R. MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039693

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651 by Alan R. MacDonald Pdf

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

Author : Alec Finlay
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029139792

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Without Day by Alec Finlay Pdf

A collection of artworks, performances and other interventions relating to the new Scottish Parliament. It includes 100 contributions from writers, artists and architects, including Douglas Gordon, Robert Crawford and Tom Pow. The mini CD features "Without Day", an audio work by William Furlong.

Author : Robert S. Rait
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066170561

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The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert S. Rait Pdf

The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns is a book by Robert S. Rait. It strives to summarize the history of the Scottish Parliament, up to the Union of the Crowns where Scotland and England where unified under a single ruling monarch in 1603.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : LCCN:2005412524

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The History of the Scottish Parliament by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Arter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.