Scotland the Brave?
The referendum on Scottish independence, scheduled for 2014, may be regarded as an amusing abstraction for those outside Scotland but within it raises many questions about Scottish identity and what is...
View ArticleMethods: In Polling, Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better
For Literary Digest and for Alf Landon himself it wasn’t such a happy landing.Political campaigners can often be heard complaining that opinion polls do not reflect what they hear on the doorstep....
View ArticleThe Scottish Referendum: Social Science and National Identity
Could David Hume and Adam Smith and other Scottish thinkers of the 18th century have created a social science that was markedly Caledonian and yet not parochial?On 18 September, Scotland voted against...
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