Revista de comunicación política e institucional

No. 47 (2022): The changes the pandemic has brought to campaign communication.
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Scotland, ¿Secesionism or Europeism?

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Javier Antón Merino
Universidad de Burgos

Keywords

  • Escocia,
  • comportamiento electoral,
  • sistema electoral,
  • partidos políticos,
  • secesionismo
  • Scotland,
  • electoral behaviour,
  • electoral system,
  • political parties,
  • secessionism

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Antón Merino, J. (2022). Scotland, ¿Secesionism or Europeism?. Más Poder Local, (47), 118-135. Retrieved from https://www.maspoderlocal.com/index.php/mpl/article/view/69

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Abstract

The Scottish Parliament, with barely over twenty years of history, has just begun its sixth legislature. On the 6th of May 2021, last elections were held to elect the representatives of this young institution. The aim of this text, paying special attention to the last election, is to carry out a historical and descriptive analysis in which the electoral system, the party system, the electoral results, and the model of selection of the First Minister of Scotland are studied. In addition, this paper also offers a contextualization of some of the main debates that are currently dominating Scottish politics.

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