Asymmetrical devolution: The Scottish case

Political Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-223

  Brown, Archie ^a  

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EID: 0004597469     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00155     Document Type: Article

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1. See John Major's speech on 23 February 1998 at the committee stage of the Scotland Bill, House of Commons Debates, 4 March 1998, cols 1081-4.
2. A. J. P. Taylor was perhaps unusual in being explicit about what he was doing. In the preface to his English History 1914-1945 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1965), he made clear that by England he meant Great Britain (a term he did not like), even though he admitted this brought protests, 'especially from the Scotch'.
3. Blair's father was brought up by Scottish foster-parents in Glasgow, but Leo Blair's natural parents were English. Tony Blair's mother, to add to the complexity, came to Scotland from Donegal, although, notwithstanding her southern Irish origins, she was a Protestant. See John Rentoul, Tony Blair, London, Little, Brown, 1995, pp. 14-16.
4. The Times, 2 February 1998, p. 21.
5. Surprisingly, the same point was repeated by the Conservative frontbench spokesman on constitutional issues, Michael Ancram, in a letter to The Times (17 March 1998, p. 19). He holds that an MP at Westminster representing a Scottish constituency after the Scottish parliament comes into existence will be 'a semi-mandated and part-time MP' and asks whether any such person could 'credibly be Prime Minister'.
6. William L. Miller, 'The Periphery and its Paradoxes', West European Politics, 1998, pp. 167-96 at p. 170.
7. Bernard Crick, 'Ambushes and Advances: The Scottish Act 1998', The Political Quarterly, 1995, pp. 237-49 at p. 245.
8. Scotland Bill (House of Commons, 1997), Part V, Clause 81 (p. 37).
9. H. C. G. Matthew, 'The British Way', London Review of Books, 5 March 1998, pp. 27-31 at p. 31. (Matthew's own title for this article, 'Home Rule in Perspective', was much more apposite than that chosen by the LRB.)
10. Financial Times, 2 February 1998, p. 11.
11. Miller, 'The Periphery and its Paradoxes', p. 192.
12. Simon Hoggart, 'Away Over the Border with the West Lothian Question', The Guardian (The Week), 17 January 1998, p. 3.
13. Hugh Seton-Watson, Nations and States: An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism, London, Methuen, 1977, p. 5.
14. Ibid., pp. 34-5.
15. Referendums Bill (Scotland and Wales), Second Reading, House of Lords Debates, 17 June 1997, cols 1119-20.
16. Lynn Bennie, Jack Brand and James Mitchell, How Scotland Votes, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. 132-3.
17. Ted Robert Gurr, Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflict, Washington DC, US Institute of Peace Press, 1993, p. 316.
18. Paul Heywood, The Government and Politics of Spain, London, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 142-64, esp. p. 163. See also Caterina Garcia, 'The Autonomous Communities and External Relations', in Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World, ed. Richard Gillespie, Fernando Rodrigo and Jonathan Story, London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 123-140; Montserrat Guibernau, 'Spain: a Federation in the Making?', in Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge, ed. Graham Smith, London, Longman, 1995, pp. 239-54.
19. Paul Heywood, The Government and Politics of Spain, London, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 142-64, esp. p. 163. See also Caterina Garcia, 'The Autonomous Communities and External Relations', in Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World, ed. Richard Gillespie, Fernando Rodrigo and Jonathan Story, London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 123-140; Montserrat Guibernau, 'Spain: a Federation in the Making?', in Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge, ed. Graham Smith, London, Longman, 1995, pp. 239-54.
20. Paul Heywood, The Government and Politics of Spain, London, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 142-64, esp. p. 163. See also Caterina Garcia, 'The Autonomous Communities and External Relations', in Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World, ed. Richard Gillespie, Fernando Rodrigo and Jonathan Story, London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 123-140; Montserrat Guibernau, 'Spain: a Federation in the Making?', in Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge, ed. Graham Smith, London, Longman, 1995, pp. 239-54.
21. It is a much more highly proportional variant of AMS than that chosen for the Welsh Assembly. See Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts and Stuart Weir, Devolution Votes: PR Elections in Scotland and Wales, Democratic Audit Paper No. 12, London, 1997. The envisaged new Northern Ireland Assembly is to be elected by a different proportional system - the single transferable vote. See Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill, House of Commons, 21 April 1998, pp. 1-2.