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The Political Thought of Scottish Nationalism
Author(s) -
JACKSON BEN
Publication year - 2014
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.2014.12058.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , ideology , politics , enthusiasm , sovereignty , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , political science , sociology , political economy , gender studies , law , psychology , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , algorithm , computer science
This article examines the key arguments and intellectual influences that have come together over recent decades to produce the case for Scottish independence. In particular, the article draws attention to three crucial, but discordant, ideological themes that have become recurrent features of Scottish nationalist discourse: an analysis of the British state indebted to the New Left; a surprising enthusiasm for the politics of the British labour movement; and a belief that we are witnessing the end of the era of absolute state sovereignty.