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issue no 25, Autumn 1998
issue no 24, Summer 1998

issue no 23, Spring 1998

issue no 22, Winter 1998
Special Issue: Understanding Constitutional Change

 

Issue No. 25, Autumn 1998

 

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

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Issue No. 24, Summer 1998

 

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

David McCrone

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Issue No. 23, Spring 1998

 

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

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Issue No. 22, Winter 1998

 

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


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Special Issue: 'Understanding Constitutional Change'

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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