Topic: How Scotland should be governed

Attitudes in Scotland to options for governing Scotland including more devolution and independence

First SSA 2014 Results: Support for Independence Up Yet Fewer Think It Would Be Beneficial

12th August 2014 Comment Expectations of constitutional change How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum

What should we make of the referendum campaign now that polling day is drawing near? That is the question being addressed today by a major ScotCen/What Scotland Thinks conference being held in Edinburgh today. To help us answer the question the event will see the unveiling of initial results from the 2014 Scottish Social Attitudes […]

Minding the gap – women’s views of independence in 2014

12th August 2014 Comment Expectations of constitutional change How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum

As we enter the final weeks of the referendum campaign, persuading key groups of voters to back their case becomes ever more important to both the Yes Scotland and the Better Together campaign. Women are one such target group. In fact, some have suggested that women may ‘hold the key’  to the outcome of September’s vote. […]

ICM: Views on the Issues are Proving Difficult to Shift

13th July 2014 Comment How Scotland should be governed

A distinguishing feature of the polls that ICM conduct for Scotland on Sunday is that they repeatedly ask many of the same questions each month. As a result, apart from academic exercises such as the British Election Study, they provide us with a unique insight into how much difference the referendum campaign is making to […]

TNS BMRB Portray a Referendum Campaign Becalmed

6th July 2014 Comment How Scotland should be governed

Today sees the publication of a second poll to be conducted by TNS BMRB for Sir Tom Hunter’s scotlandseptember18.com website, the stated aim of which is to improve the quality of the referendum debate. Much of the poll is thus about people’s perceptions of the quality of that debate and whether they feel adequately informed […]

A Critical Look at Scotland’s Referendum: Special Issue of Scottish Affairs

3rd July 2014 Comment How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum

The journal Scottish Affairs was first launched not long after the Conservatives had won their fourth consecutive UK general election in 1992. The opening lines of Scottish Affairs, number 1 were delivered by the journal’s editor, Lindsay Paterson: The day after the general election last April, a new bit of graffiti appeared on a wall […]