Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Tables vi
4. Notes on the Contributors vii
5. INTRODUCTION Back to the Future: Exploring Twenty Years of Scotland’s Journey, Stories and Politics 1
6. Part One. The Political Institutions and Environment
7. ONE The Electorate and Elections 29
8. TWO. Attitudes to Constitutional Change 45
9. THREE. The Scottish Government 52
10. FOUR The Scottish Civil Service 64
11. FIVE The Scottish Parliament and ‘New Politics’ at Twenty 73
12. SIX The Emergence of a Scottish Political Class 84
13. SEVEN The Committee System of the Scottish Parliament 97
14. EIGHT Scotland and Westminster and Continental Drift 105
15. NINE British Political Tradition and Scottish Local Government 116
16. TEN Public Spending and Taxation 123
17. Part Two. Scotland’s Political Parties
18. ELEVEN SNP: Devolution Winners 133
19. TWELVE The Fall of the House of Scottish Labour 145
20. THIRTEEN The Scottish Conservative Party: Wilderness to Recovery 159
21. FOURTEEN The Liberal Democrats: From Coalition to the Margins 169
22. FIFTEEN Greens: Radical and Relevant? 179
23. SIXTEEN Socialism in a Cold Climate: The Radical Left since 1999 189
24. Part Three. The Wider Environment
25. SEVENTEEN Scotland’s Brexit Blues 199
26. EIGHTEEN Europe 211
27. NINETEEN Independence and Union Revisited: Recent Interpretations in Scottish History, Literature and Politics 219
28. Part Four. Inside Politics
29. TWENTY The Parliament Sits in the Land 229
30. TWENTY-ONE Devolution: An Assessment 242
31. TWENTY-TWO Inside the Changing Business of Governing Scotland 252
32. TWENTY-THREE The Journey of the Scottish Parliament to Maturity 260
33. TWENTY-FOUR From Think Twice to Radical Devolution: A Scottish Conservative Movement 268
34. TWENTY-FIVE The Scottish Parliament: Past Dreams, Present Realities, Possible Futures 276
35. Appendix: A Chronology of Scottish Politics and Devolution, 1997–2019 289
36. Index 301