Arguing for Independence (2nd Edition)

Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues

Arguing for Independence (2nd Edition)
Stephen Maxwell
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15 Oct 2021 UK
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9781910745434
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Shortlisted for ' Polemic of the Year' at The Paddy Power/Total Politics Political Book Awards 2013!Following an introductory chapter exploring why political argument deals in probability and plausibility across interdependent areas of social activity not certainty in individual areas, this book offers a case for independence under six main headings - the democratic case, the economic case, the social case, the international case, the cultural case and the environmental case. Under each heading, the case is assessed against both the supportive evidence and the hostile evidence, from a variety of sources, concluding with a judgement of where the balance of the evidence points. The book concludes with a selection of populist objections to independence answered by summary rebuttals from the independence file.
Stephen Maxwell has a positive, left-wing case for independence. SCOTTISH LEFT REVIEWMaxwell was an intellectual, a thinker, a writer, a civic activist, and a dedicated servant of Scotland' s voluntary sector. Joyce McMillan, THE SCOTSMAN
STEPHEN MAXWELL was active in the debate on Scotland' s political future for four decades. A native of Edinburgh, he studied at the universities of Cambridge and the London School of Economics before teaching and researching in international politics at theuniversities of Sussex and Edinburgh and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was the SNP' s national press officer between 1973 and 1977 and subsequently a Lothian Regional Councillor and director of the SNP' s campaign for a Yes vote in the 1979 Scottish Assembly referendum. Until October 2009 he was Associate Director of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
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ISBN-13: 9781910745434
Published: 15 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Luath Press
Publisher: Luath Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 192

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