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Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues

Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues

by StephenMaxwell (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $14.07
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: 2nd edition
 Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 10: 191074543X
ISBN 13: 9781910745434
Expected Release Date: 30 Mar 2027

Media Reviews
Stephen Maxwell has a positive, left-wing case for independence. SCOTTISH LEFT REVIEW Maxwell was an intellectual, a thinker, a writer, a civic activist, and a dedicated servant of Scotland's voluntary sector. Joyce McMillan, THE SCOTSMAN
Author Bio
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 the universities 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.