Political behaviour in Scotland
Political behaviour in Scotland
This chapter pursues three tasks. We begin with the multilevel political context in which Scottish political behaviour in Scotland takes place and review some of the main ways researchers have sought to understand how citizen evaluations, attitudes, and behaviour change across the different political arenas in which they might participate. Second, we explore historical trends in Scottish voting at the local, Scottish, UK, and European levels before focusing in greater depth on devolved and UK voting. Third, we focus on two research questions currently occupying researchers of voting behaviour in Scotland. We examine claims about voting in sub-state elections and explore whether Scots tend to treat devolved elections as second-order contests and Westminster elections as first-order contests. We then ask whether the 2014 referendum appears to have had an impact on political engagement in Scotland.
Devolution, Elections, Political behaviour, Scotland, Voting
220-236
Arnold; Oxford University Press
Henderson, Ailsa
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Johns, Robert
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Carman, Christopher
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Mitchell, James
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2 September 2020
Henderson, Ailsa
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Johns, Robert
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Carman, Christopher
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Mitchell, James
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Henderson, Ailsa, Johns, Robert, Carman, Christopher and Mitchell, James
(2020)
Political behaviour in Scotland.
In,
Keating, Michael
(ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics.
Arnold; Oxford University Press, .
(doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.013.11).
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This chapter pursues three tasks. We begin with the multilevel political context in which Scottish political behaviour in Scotland takes place and review some of the main ways researchers have sought to understand how citizen evaluations, attitudes, and behaviour change across the different political arenas in which they might participate. Second, we explore historical trends in Scottish voting at the local, Scottish, UK, and European levels before focusing in greater depth on devolved and UK voting. Third, we focus on two research questions currently occupying researchers of voting behaviour in Scotland. We examine claims about voting in sub-state elections and explore whether Scots tend to treat devolved elections as second-order contests and Westminster elections as first-order contests. We then ask whether the 2014 referendum appears to have had an impact on political engagement in Scotland.
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Published date: 2 September 2020
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Devolution, Elections, Political behaviour, Scotland, Voting
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Ailsa Henderson
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Christopher Carman
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James Mitchell
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Michael Keating
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