Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?

The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral results of the last two decades in each of the f...

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Main Author:	Fiona Simpkins
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2019-11-01
Series:	Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Subjects:	devolution Scottish politics SNP Scottish independence referendum Scottish Parliament Brexit
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/4938

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spelling	doaj-7ca0398deb7b4476aca1151c0644649a2020-11-25T02:05:18ZengCentre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation BritanniqueRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique0248-90152019-11-0124410.4000/rfcb.4938Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?Fiona SimpkinsThe geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral results of the last two decades in each of the four UK nations. While the roots of divergent political patterns across the UK may lay in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales and the long decline of the Conservatives north of the border, we shall contend that the introduction of devolution to Scotland and Wales in 1999 had the most considerable impact on British party politics.http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/4938devolutionScottish politics SNPScottish independence referendumScottish ParliamentBrexit
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title	Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
title_short	Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
title_full	Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
title_fullStr	Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
title_full_unstemmed	Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
title_sort	twenty years of devolution in scotland: the end of a british party system?
publisher	Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
series	Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
issn	0248-9015
publishDate	2019-11-01
description	The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral results of the last two decades in each of the four UK nations. While the roots of divergent political patterns across the UK may lay in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales and the long decline of the Conservatives north of the border, we shall contend that the introduction of devolution to Scotland and Wales in 1999 had the most considerable impact on British party politics.
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Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?

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