Scottish Affairs
Scotland's Longest Running Journal
on Contemporary Political and Social Issues

Issues 1998

Issue No. 25, Autumn 1998 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Northern Ireland
Towards a Lasting Peace'? The Northern Ireland Multi-Party Agreement, Referendum and Assembly Elections of 1998	John Doyle
Peace in Our Time? The 1998 Agreement	Steve Bruce
Northern Ireland: From Good Friday to the Massacre of the Innocents	Owen Dudley Edwards
Scotland's Constitutional Future
Scotland and Ireland	Alex Salmond
Scotland, Britain and Europe: A New United Kingdom for a New Century	Malcolm Rifkind
Economic and Social Development
Labour's New Deal in Scotland	John Fairley
Strengthening Local Democracy in Scotland: The Challenge to Local Government	John Stewart
The Leadership Issue in Local Government	Gerry Stoker
Review: Education in Scotland	Tony Gallagher
Review: The Catholic Community in Modern Scotland	Graham Walker

Issue No. 24, Summer 1998 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Northern Ireland
Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland: Time for Lateral Thinking	Alexander Ramsay
Local Government
New Devolution: New Dangers For Local Government?	C.M.G.Himsworth
Scotland's Councillors 1974-1995	Catherine Bochel and Hugh M. Bochel
History, Politics and Culture
Review: No Gods and Precious Few Heroes	Michael Fry
Review: Unionist Scotland	Graeme Morton
Review: Finding Scotland	Graeme Morton
Review: The Wales Yearbook	Richard Parry
Review: The End of Masculinity	Alexandra Howson
Review: Reimagining Culture	Kathryn Burnett
Scottish Languages
Scotland's Languages in Scotland's Parliament	Wilson McLeod
Review Essay: The Future of the Scots Language	Paul Henderson Scott
Social Policy
The Higher Still Policy Process	David Raffe and Cathy Howieson
Blaming the Victim?: Local Government Reform and Scottish Social Work	Gary Craig and Jill Manthorpe
The Private Finance Initiative: Private Opportunity at the Public's Cost?	Paul N. Coleshill, A. Gibson, A. Jaconelli and James Sheffield
Reference Section
Opinion Polls in Scotland, July 1997 - June 1998 [ PDF version]	David McCrone

Issue No. 23, Spring 1998 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Nationalism and Identity
A New Dawn: Shared by Scotland and Pakistan: Reflections on August 1997.	Elinor Kelly
The Social Contract: Re-framing Scottish Nationalism	Jonathan S. Hearn
Fixing the Terms of Statelessness - Again	Wesley Edwards
Scottish Politics
Reinventing the Yo-Yo? A Comment on the Electoral Provisions of the Scotland Bill	John Curtice
Scottish Unionism: An East West Divide?	David Seawright
Land and the Environment
Land, Democracy and Culture in Scotland	David McCrone
An Integrated Conservation Policy for Scotland: A Rhetoric Which Belies Practice	Andrew M. M. Samuel
Society and Policy
The Myth of the Macho Scotsman: Attitudes to Gender, Work and the Family in the UK, Ireland and Europe	John MacInnes
Review: Perspectives on Welfare	Suzanne Audrey
Review: The Future of Welfare	Richard Holloway
Working With Men: Reply to Cavanagh and Cree	Julie Brownlie

Issue No. 22, Winter 1998 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Politics
The 1997 Scottish Referendum: An Analysis of the Results	Charles Patie, David Denver, James Mitchell and Hugh Bochel
Third Party Politics in a Four Party System: The Liberal Democrats in Scotland	Peter Lynch
Britain, the Scottish Covenant Movement and Devolution, 1946-50	Ian Levitt
Review: A Partnership for Good?	R.H.Campbell
Review: Ethnoregional Conflict in Democracies	Michael Keating
Review: Scotland, An Unwon Cause	Richard Finlay
Review: Fianna Fail and Irish Labour	Michael Hopkinson
Social Policy
Developing Local Government: Lessons for Scotland from Poland	Kevin Orr
Working With Men: A Response to the Review	Kate Cavanagh and Viviene Cree
Higher Education
The Higher Education System That Scotland Needs	Peter Scott
Higher Education, Social Capital and the Scottish Parliament	Lindsay Paterson
Culture
'Sense and Worth': A Review Essay	Sean Damer
Review: White Settlers	E.Mairi MacArthur

Special Issue: 'Understanding Constitutional Change' [ download table of contents as PDF]
David McCrone	Introduction
Donald Dewar	The Scottish Parliament
Tom Nairn	Virtual Liberation; or: British Sovereignty Since the Election
Paula Surridge, Lindsay Paterson, Alice Brown and David McCrone	The Scottish Electorate and the Scottish Parliament
John Curtice and Roger Jowell	Is There Really a Demand for Constitutional Change?
Pippa Norris	Political Elites and Constitutional Change
Anthony Heath and James Kellas	Nationalisms and Constitutional Questions
Neil MacCormick	The English Constitution, the British State and the Scottish Anomaly

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