TY - BOOK ID - 136015095 TI - Between two unions PY - 2006 SN - 1781701393 1847792138 9781847792136 9781781701393 0719070805 9780719070808 9780719070808 0719070805 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Scotland KW - Politics and government KW - Conservative rule. KW - European dimension. KW - Scottish devolution. KW - changing attitudes. KW - comparative study. KW - constitutional preferences. KW - independence. KW - interest groups. KW - political parties. KW - referendum. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136015095 AB - This book is the first in-depth comparative study of Scottish devolution and the first to analyse the impact of the European dimension. With focus on the periods leading up to the referendums in 1979 and 1997, it investigates positions and strategies of political parties and interest groups and how these influenced constitutional preferences at mass level and ultimately the referendum results. Based on rigorous analysis of an extensive body of quantitative and qualitative sources, it builds a ground-breaking argument that challenges the widespread thesis that support for devolution was ER -