Local Government and a Scottish Parliament

1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Scottish Parliament

scholarly journals Women Candidates and Councillors in Scottish Local Government, 1974–2012

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-185
Author(s):  
Hugh Bochel ◽  
Catherine Bochel
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Similar Increase ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Female Candidates ◽  
Scottish Parliament ◽  
Significant Attention

While significant attention has been paid to the levels of representation of women in both the Westminster Parliament and the Scottish Parliament, much less consideration has been given to the position within local government. This article addresses that deficit for Scotland. It shows that for twenty-five years following the reorganisation of local government in Scotland in 1974 there was a slow but relatively steady increase in the numbers of female candidates and councillors, although more recently this appears to have plateaued somewhat, together with a similar increase in the number of women councillors taking up more senior roles in Scotland's councils. The article analyses the representation of women in Scottish local government over the period from 1974 to 2012 against the backdrop of significant change in Scotland, including a further restructuring of local government and the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote for council elections, the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the rise of the SNP and the decline of the Conservative Party.

scholarly journals Disaggregating the electoral roll

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Alexander Thomas T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
General Election ◽  
Electoral Roll ◽  
Secret Ballot ◽  
Conservative Politics ◽  
Scottish Parliament ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Legal Constraints

Following their ‘wipe-out’ at the 1997 General Election, Scottish Conservatives worked from the assumption that they had endured their own ‘crisis’ in representation. The material consequences of this ‘crisis’ entailed losses of !nancial and other resources, knowledge and political legitimacy. This article describes how some Conservative activists addressed this ‘crisis’ in the period leading to the 2003 local Government and Scottish Parliament elections. Their efforts to render the secret ballot transparent in order to discern the voting intentions of potential supporters both demonstrated and re!ected their efforts to manage this crisis. Despite legal constraints, they constructed an imaginary of thousands of local voters’ preferences through a variety of discursive instruments, which allowed Party activists to disaggregate the electoral roll in order to apprehend a new whole – the Conservative electoral base. This, in turn, enabled a Conservative politics of self-knowledge, as a form of empowerment for these activists.

Police Accountability in Scotland: [1] the ‘New’ Tripartite System

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Donnelly ◽  
Kenneth B. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Scottish Parliament ◽  
Police Accountability ◽  
The Impact

Police accountability in Scotland is examined in two aspects. First, the changing constitutional arrangements in Scotland are explored in terms of the tripartite system; local government reform, devolution, the Scottish Parliament and the new Justice Ministry. Comparisons are also made between the policing systems in Scotland and England and Wales, with respect to the police reforms of the 1990s. It is argued that recent constitutional change and central government policies have significantly increased centralisation of the policing function in Scotland by non-statutory means. The impact of these changes on police authorities, joint police boards and policing is evaluated.

Recordkeeping in Local Government in Norway 1950–2000

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Gudmund Valderhaug
Keyword(s):  
Local Government
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