TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dardanelli,Paolo
TI  - Between two unions: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution
T2  - Devolution Series
SN  - 9781847792136
AV  - JS113 .B489 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Scotland
KW  - European Union countries
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 9780719070808; 9780719070808; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Part I THE 1970s; 2 Political parties; 3 Interest groups; 4 Public opinion; 5 Failed Europeanisation in the 1970s; Part II THE 1990s; 6 Political parties; 7 Interest groups; 8 Public opinion; 9 Successful Europeanisation in the 1990s; Part III CONCLUSIONS; 10 Explaining Europeanisation and devolution; 11 Epilogue: a new Scotland in a changing Europe; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - This book is the first in-depth comparative study of Scottish devolution and the first to analyse the impact of the European dimension. With focus on the periods leading up to the referendums in 1979 and 1997, it investigates positions and strategies of political parties and interest groups and how these influenced constitutional preferences at mass level and ultimately the referendum results. Based on rigorous analysis of an extensive body of quantitative and qualitative sources, it builds a ground-breaking argument that challenges the widespread thesis that support for devolution was a conse
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