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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Scottish Parliament"”.
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The institutional effects of the Scottish Parliament upon organised interests.
… This thesis, begun the same year that the Scottish Parliament opened, looks at the effects of this new political institution (with particular emphasis on the legislature) upon the behaviour and beliefs of six interest groups in Scotland. The effect of the different parliamentary components …
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Youth participation and the Scottish Parliament: accessibility and participation for children and young people.
The Scottish Parliament which (re)convened in 1999 was designed to engender a new style of political practice. This new politics was intended to address perceived failures within the Westminster approach to policy-making and the democratic deficit believed to have emerged during the 1980s in …
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An analysis of the Committee for the Security of the Kingdom of the Scottish Parliament, 1693-1702
… later. A group of one hundred and ten leading Scottish peers and gentry gathered in Whitehall to discuss the future of their country, inviting William to call a Convention of Estates to meet at Edinburgh, March 14, to settle the government.2 This convention became a parliament which met over …
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From Minority to Mainstream - The Electoral Rise of the Scottish National Party 1999-2016
With the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the Scottish National Party (SNP) became the main opposition party, and since 2007 has been the governing party. This rise to power was not a given, and is in comparison to the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, which lost seats over …
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From Minority to Mainstream - The Electoral Rise of the Scottish National Party 1999-2016
With the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the Scottish National Party (SNP) became the main opposition party, and since 2007 has been the governing party. This rise to power was not a given, and is in comparison to the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, which lost seats over …
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Newspaper campaigns, publics and politics
… and content study of campaign journalism in the Scottish press, examining the journalists’ orientation to their readers, both in terms of social responsibility toward them in facilitating their citizenship, and in terms of accountability or answerability to them as their quasi-representatives. …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
… of Information Act’ (Legislation.gov.uk, 2000; Scottish Parliament, 2002) request was sent to all UK NHS Trusts and Health boards. Retrieved policies were subject to content analysis whereby data were extracted using the most pertinent of five self-designed tools.<br/>Findings<br/>Seventy-five …
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Devolution and party change in the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties, 1997-2011
… Both parties had to change to accommodate the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, and deal with the Conservative Party's weak electoral position outside England. Whilst the Scottish Conservatives concentrated on being a competent opposition party in a multi-party parliament, the Welsh …
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Gender, discourse and the public sphere
… briefly considers their contribution to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, before focusing in detail on the contribution made by the Northern Irish Women's Coalition to framing the Good Friday Agreement and to the structures of the new Northern Irish Assembly. The third case study …
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Local Policing in Transition: Examining the Impacts and Implications of Police Reform in Scotland
Since the reintroduction of a Scottish parliament in 1999, and set against a backdrop of significant cuts in public spending, there has been much debate regarding law and order discourse from a Scottish perspective. In 2011, the Scottish Government conducted two consultations on the most radical …
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The road to nowhere? A critical case study of the political discourses in the debates around the decision to construct a bypass road around Aberdeen.
… These stages include representations to the Scottish Parliament; a public local inquiry (PLI); judicial review to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, and a hearing in the UK Supreme Court. The research drew upon triangulated methodologies including Faircloughs (2012) political discourse …