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

Issues 1999

Issue No. 29, Autumn 1999 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Religion and Identity
Social Divisions and the Social Impact of Catholic Schools	Steve Bruce
Review: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland	John Brewer
Quangos in Scotland
Quangos and the Structure of the Public Sector in Scotland	Richard Parry
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency: Making Sense of a Fragmenting Environment	M.G.Lloyd
Economic Development
Industrial Clusters: Scotland's Route to Economic Success	Ron Botham and Bob Downes
What Can Scotland Learn From Austin Texas?	Ron Botham
Industrial Clusters: A New Idea or an Old One?	Gavin McCrone
Clusters and Training Policy	Michael Leech
The Public Funding of Vocational Education and Training in Scotland	John Fairley and Andy McArthur
Sustainable Development
Sustaining Edinburgh: The Lord Provost Commission on Sustainable Development for the City of Edinburgh	Daniel Mittler
Politics and Culture
Political Constructions of National Identity in Scotland and Quebec	Ailsa Henderson
Left at the Polls: The Changing Far-Left Vote	Tony Milligan
DNB to New DNB: Good News for Dead Scottish Writers, Especially Women	Isobel Murray
Review: Popular Education and Social Movements	Brian Simon

Issue No. 28, Summer 1999 [ download table of contents as PDF]
The Election to the Scottish Parliament
The 1999 Scottish Parliament Elections: From Anti-Tory to Anti-Nationalist Politics	Peter Jones
The Scottish Parliament Elections 1999: An Analysis of the Results	David Denver and Iain MacAllister
Opinion Polls in Scotland, July 1998 - June 1999 [ PDF version]	David McCrone
Taking Their Place in the New House: Women in the Scottish Parliament [ PDF version]	Alice Brown
The Negotiation Diaries	Ross Finnie and Henry McLeish
English Regionalsim
In Search of English Regionalism: The Case of the North East	John Tomaney
The Barnett Formula
The Barnett Formula and Public Spending in Scotland: Policy and Practice	Arthur Midwinter
The Scottish Secretary, The Treasury and the Scottish Grant Equivalent, 1888 - 1970	Ian Levitt
Learning
Critical Thinking Required, or Seven Deadly Sins of Information Technology	Tom Conlon
'Not for Lipstick and Lager': Students and Part Time Work	Newman Smith and Phil Taylor

Issue No. 27, Spring 1999 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Scottish Parliament Building
Theatres of Pusillanimity and Power in Holyrood	Charles McKean
Development
The European Structural Fund Partnerships in Scotland: New Forms of Governance for Regional Developments?	M.W.Danson, J.Fairley, M.G.Lloyd and I.Turok
The Scottish Parliament and Development Planning	Keith Hayton
Organisational Barriers to Widening Public Access to Environmental Information: Appraising the Scottish Office's Strategy	John Moxen, Alistair McCulloch and Elaine Sinclair
Culture and History
Sport, Nationalism and the Scottish Parliament	G.Jarvie and I.Thomson
Review: History and National Identity	David McCrone
Review: Politics of the Gaelic Language	James Kellas
Review: Glencoe and the End of the Highland War	James Hunter
Politics
The Council of the Isles and the Scotland-Northern Ireland Relationship	Graham Walker
Scottish MEPs' Perceptions of Their Role and Function and the Potential Impact of Electoral Reform	Trevor C. Salmon and Linda Stevenson
Review: The Future of Canada	Michael Keating
Review: Making Votes Count	John Curtice
Review: The Bogus State of Brigadoon	Gerry Hassan

Issue No. 26, Winter 1999 [ download table of contents as PDF]
Northern Ireland
Inclusive Others: the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition in the Peace Process	Carmel Roulston
The 1998 British-Irish Agreement: Power-Sharing Plus	Brendan O'Leary
Policy and Politics
Wider Access in Scotland?	R.D.Osborne
Situating the Blair Membership Boom Within its Social and Political Context	Ross Bond
Review: Letters to William Beveridge	Ian Martin
Review: Publications of the Scottish Council Foundation	Fred Twine
Culture and History
'Stands Scotland where it did?'An Essay in Ethnicity and Internationalism	Elinor Kelly
The Gaelic Renaissance and Scotland's Identities	Sharon Macdonald
Review: Modern Scottish History: Vols 1, 3, and 5	John McCaffrey
Review: Modern Scottish History: Vols 2 and 4	Alex Law
Review: Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830	Siobhan Lloyd

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