Scotland Decides: The Devolution Issue and the 1997 Referendum

by Charles Pattie, Hugh Bochel, David Denver, et al.

Book Overview

Scotland has a parliament for the first time in almost 300 years, and this book is an account of how this came about. The authors trace the origins and history of the demand for home rule in Scotland, focusing particularly on developments following the failure of the first referendum on the issue in 1979, which culminated in a second referendum in September 1997.
This major political event attracted national and international interest, and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714650536
• ISBN13: 9780714650531
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"