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Entries for October 2013

Paddy Bort: Putting Local Democracy at the Heart of Scotland's Constitutional Future

Even without the referendum campaign, we probably would – or, at least, should – have a debate about local democracy in Scotland. Less than 40% of the Scottish electorate bothered to vote in last year’s local council elections.

 

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Jo Shaw: Is Being 'Scottish' a Matter of Birth, Descent or Residence?

Defining citizenship status and allocating citizenship rights would be an independent Scotland’s ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’ moment, giving concrete form to the tricky question of ‘who are the Scots?’.

 

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