Too many Scotlands? Place, the SNP, and the future of nationalist mobilization.
Scottish nationalism has always had a ‘geographical problem’ in the sense that support for its central goal, the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom, has had much more backing in some regions and localities than it has had in others. In the 1970s and 1980s the geographical pattern to th...
| Published in: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 134; no. 1/2; pp. 5 - 24 |
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