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Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Figures and Tables -- Preface to the Second Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 What is Scottish Politics? -- What is 'politics'? -- What is 'Scottish'? -- The Scottish politics of difference -- A Scottish political system? -- New politics -- Key themes -- 2 Devolution: Historical, Social and Economic Context -- Administrative devolution and the 'Scottish political system' -- The rise of the home-rule agenda -- The 1979 referendum -- The Conservative years, 1979-97 -- The Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1989-95 -- The 1997 referendum -- The Scottish media -- Economy -- Society -- Conclusion -- 3 Scotland's Political Parties -- Scottish political parties -- Scotland's changing party system -- Centralizing trends in party organization -- Catch-all parties? -- Conclusion -- 4 Scottish Elections and Voting Behaviour -- Electoral systems -- Local elections in Scotland -- Cleavages, identification and de-alignment -- Valence politics and the Scottish voter -- Party identification and campaigning in different venues -- Candidate selection -- Is the Scottish electorate left wing? -- Conclusion -- 5 The Scottish Parliament and ' New Politics' -- The CSG proposals on parliamentary business -- The powers of Scottish Parliament committees -- The 'outputs' of the Scottish Parliament: questions, inquiries and bills -- Influencing Scottish Government primary legislation -- The effect of coalition, minority and majority government -- The Scottish Parliament: an arena for new forms of participatory and deliberative democracy? -- Representative democracy and microcosmic representation -- Conclusion -- 6 The Scottish Government -- Scottish Government ministers: how do they compare with the UK? -- Scotland's experience of coalition, minority and majority government -- The civil service.

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