Scottish Affairs
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 09660356, 2053888X

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

History: 2016-2021

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Scottish Affairs founded in 1992 is the leading forum for debate on Scottish current affairs.Its predecessor was Scottish Government Yearbooks published by the University of Edinburghs Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland between 1976 and 1992.The movement towards the setting up the Scottish Parliament in the 1990s and then the debate in and around the Parliament since 1999 brought the need for a new analysis of Scottish politics policy and society. Scottish Affairs provides that opportunity. Fully peerreviewed it publishes articles on matters of concern to people who are interested in the development of Scotland often setting current affairs in an international or historical context and in a context of debates about culture and identity. This includes articles about similarly placed small nations and regions throughout Europe and beyond. The articles are authoritative and rigorous without being technical and pedantic. No subject area is excluded but all articles pay attention to the social and political context of their topics.Thus Scottish Affairs takes up a position between informed journalism and academic analysis and provides a forum for dialogue between the two. The readers and contributors include journalists politicians civil servants business people academics and people in general who take an informed interest in current affairs.