The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Michale Keating and David McCrone explore what Scots think about who has the right to decide on Scottish independence, and whether Scotland could unilaterally secede.
Maxime Vandenberghe and Nicolas Bouteca argue that ethno-territorial diversity creates a visible “heterogeneity cost” in everyday government, increasing routine conflicts between coalition partners as well as more serious cabinet disputes
This blog seeks to articulate how the rise of Reform UK has eroded the power of the exceptionalist narrative in Scotland and altered nationalist contestation in Scotland.
Onsel Gurel Bayrali explores how electoral incentives shape crisis governance in federal systems, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic
Join Dr. David Rogers, the former Constitution and Cabinet Director at the Scottish Government, for a talk and Q&A session
An opportunity for academics and researchers broadly interested in spatial inequalities to share their research expertise
This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK. It will consider how Germany's system of territorial governance has evolved, what challenges it now faces, and how this experience might inform ongoing debates about devolution, democracy, and reform in Scotland and the wider UK.
Scholarship on international sovereignty generally adopts a binary conception: territories either have international recognition, or they lack it and remain unrecognized entities within fragmented states.
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