A Nation Changed?
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A Nation Changed?

The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On

  1. 410 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

A Nation Changed?

The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On

About this book

A Nation Changed? Provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office. It looks at how Scotland has changed and not changed during that time, and the challenges that lie ahead. The book examines the SNP's record, its role as a government and as a party, detailed policy issues such as education and health, the Brexit conundrum and independence.

Offering insights and suggestions for further action and reform, A Nation Changed? brings together an unparalleled range of knowledgeable and expert voices all of whom care deeply about Scotland, public policy, the state of democracy, and the future of our nation. Irrespective of your political views or allegiance, this groundbreaking study offers fresh thinking, food for thought and ideas for debate concerning the changing terrain of Scottish politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. The SNP, Modern Scotland and Power in Transition
  8. Section One: The Political and Economic Landscape
  9. The Party and the Electorate
  10. The Scottish Government Under the SNP
  11. Why is the SNP So Pleased with the Scottish Parliament?
  12. The SNP, the Politics of Discipline and Westminster
  13. The SNP and Local Government
  14. The SNPā€™s Economic Strategy: Economic Performance in a Changing Fiscal Context
  15. The Scottish Economy, the SNP and the Absence of Economic Nationalism
  16. The Scottish Economy: Breaking with Business as Usual?
  17. Section Two: A Social Justice Scotland for All?
  18. A Fairer and More Socially Just Scotland?
  19. Scotlandā€™s School Education
  20. The Early Years Agenda
  21. Higher Education: The Story So Far
  22. A Public Health Politics That is a Peopleā€™s Health
  23. Baby Boxes: A Case Study of One Policy Idea
  24. Scotland the Just? The SNP, Crime and Justice
  25. An Era of Compassionate Justice? Assessing a Decade of SNP Governance
  26. Law and Order: Politically Astute and/or Smart on Crime?
  27. Section Three: ā€˜We are the Peopleā€™? Publics, Democracy and Citizenship
  28. A Decade in the Life of Scotlandā€™s Public Services
  29. Where Does Policy Come From in Scotland?
  30. ā€˜We, the People Who Live Hereā€™: Citizenship and the SNP
  31. Constitutional Monarchy: Kingship or Republic for 21st Century Scotland?
  32. Gender, Power and Women: Movement and Government Politics
  33. LGBTI Scotland: A Story of Progress
  34. Power to Which People: The Few or the Many?
  35. How Deep is Our Democracy?
  36. Taking the Temperature: Scotlandā€™s Environment after Black Gold
  37. Section Four: The Politics of Place and Belonging
  38. Scotlandā€™s Public Sphere: From Unspace to Diverse Assembly?
  39. Means and Ends: Progressive Nationalism and Neopolitical Practices
  40. Alternative Scotlands: New Spaces and Practices and Overcoming ā€˜Unspaceā€™
  41. Glasgow: The Challenges Facing Scotlandā€™s First City
  42. The Story of Land Reform: From the Margins to Centre Stage?
  43. Section Five: Cultures of Imagination
  44. The SNP and the Press
  45. The SNP and Broadcasting
  46. The Importance of Arts and Culture: A Journey Over Devolved Scotland
  47. Begbieā€™s Belief: Miserablism Behind Bars: No Longer a Nation of Trainspotters
  48. The Mongrel Nation of Scotland? Scottishness, Identities and Nationalism
  49. Section Six: The Wider World and Context
  50. Scotland International
  51. Defence and the SNP
  52. The Meaning of Independence
  53. The Evolution of the European Dimension: Where Next?
  54. The State of Social Democracy and the Scottish Nationalists
  55. Making the Scotland of the Future: A Time for Boldness and Honesty
  56. Time to Party? Politics and Energy Inside and Outside the SNP
  57. Facts and Figures Over Ten Years: An Overview
  58. The 2017 UK General Election: All Change for Scottish Politics and the SNP?
  59. Appendix: Scotland 2007-2017: A Chronology
  60. Contributors