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Anatomy of a Scottish Revolution: The Potential of Postnationalist Scotland and the Future of the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
HASSAN GERRY
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2011.02216.x
Subject(s) - devolution (biology) , parliament , nationalism , politics , home rule , victory , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , power (physics) , character (mathematics) , welsh , identity (music) , political economy , law , political science , sociology , history , archaeology , statistics , physics , geometry , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , acoustics , human evolution
Scottish politics isn't about some remote northern politics but go to the heart of the nature, character and power dimensions of the UK and British state. Scotland has been dramatically changed by the scale of the SNP landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections. Scottish society, identity and culture along with the politics of unionism and nationalism have all changed and will change further. The old fashioned politics of devolution are dead, but what comes next and what are the consequences for Scottish independence? What has to be challenged are old‐fashioned out‐of‐date views of the SNP, and the unreconstructed nationalism of the British state.