New Scotland, new society? : are social and political ties fragmenting? / edited by John Curtice ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtice, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Scottish.

Politics and government.

Scotland--Politics and government--20th century.

Scotland.

Scotland--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

234 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Polygon at Edinburgh, [2002]

Summary:

"New Scotland, New Society" asks a series of vital questions regarding the attitudes and behavior of the Scots: are the ties that bind people to each other and to the democratic system fragmenting? How do people relate to social institutions such as the family and systems of morality? Is constitutional reform restoring that trust? Drawing on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and its predecessors, the overall aim of the book is to provide an independent account of public opinion in post-devolution Scotland.

Contents:

Social capital and constitutional reform / Lindsay Paterson

Rejecting traditional family building? Attitudes to cohabitation and teenage pregnancy in Scotland / Kerstin Hinds, Lynn Jamieson

Cohabitation and marriage in Scotland : attitudes, myths and the law / Anne Barlow

Scotland's morals / Alison Park

Society and democracy : the new Scotland / Paula Surridge

Devolution and democracy : new trust or old cynicism? / John Curtice

A nation of regions? / Catherine Bromley, David McCrone

Governing from the centre : ideology and public policy / Lindsay Paterson

Appendix: Technical aspects of the surveys.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1902930355

OCLC:

49695119