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Building a Representative House in Scotland and the Role of Women in the Developmental Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Alice Brown
Alice Brown*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Nineteen ninety-seven will be remembered as the year when a large majority of the people in Scotland voted in a two question referendum to establish a Scottish parliament (74.3%) with tax-varying powers (63.5%) (Jones 1997). Elections will take place in 1999, with the first Scottish parliament being fully operational by the year 2000.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 31 , Issue 1: 30th Anniversary Issue , March 1998 , pp. 17 - 20
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998

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