Graeme Roy: Academic input into constitutional debate is welcome
The contribution of a new series of articles on Scottish independence aiming to share ideas and insights into some of the related technical and institutional questions.
Graeme Roy: Spring spending review is good time to take stock
With budget pressures looming, there’s value in the Scottish Government holding a spending review in the spring.
Additional powers: Better understanding? Better scrutiny? A new report on Scotland’s new budget powers
A joint working paper with the Scottish Parliament’s Information Centre and the University of Strathclyde looking at levels of understanding of Scotland’s new budget powers.
Probing the patchwork of welfare services in Scotland: The experience as specialist advisors to a UK parliamentary committee
Dr Hayley Bennett and Dr Sarah Weakley reflect on their work supporting a Parliamentary inquiry and share suggestions for other academics on undertaking this kind of knowledge exchange.
In conversation: Ken Macintosh, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Conversation with Ken Macintosh MSP, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, to reflect on two decades of Scottish devolution.
Experts and politics in Scotland and the UK
Expert advice has been prominent in the COVID-19 crisis but understanding the relationship between experts and policymaking will be of particular importance as we move to the next stage.
Reflecting on the Child Poverty Strategy 2014-2017
Evan Williams argues that the success of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill will rely on policy initiatives that explicitly target welfare and housing provision.
Muscatelli – Time for a grown up debate on tax
Reflections on devolution and tax by Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow.
Professor Jim Gallagher – The Brexit Paradox: How the wrong choice for Britain offers the right opportunity for Scotland.
Kicking off a series of events on Brexit hosted by Policy Scotland, Professor Jim Gallagher today gave a lecture at the University of Glasgow on “The Brexit Paradox: How the wrong choice for Britain offers the right opportunity for Scotland”. Addressing an audience of prominent academics, journalists and experts from a range of fields, Professor…
Brexit and Public Policy Capacity
The challenge of dealing with Brexit when there is an underlying problem with policy capacity and huge implications for the devolved governments.