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SCOTTISH AFFAIRS Issue no. 60 Summer 2007
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Scottish Affairs, no. 60, summer 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE GEORGE DAVIE 1912-2007: AN APPRECIATION Murdo Macdonald 1 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION THE SMOOTH WOOING: THE SNP'S VICTORY IN THE 2007 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS Peter Jones 6 PASSPORT TO KELSO : A (MICRO)NATION DECIDES David Stenhouse 24 DIARY OF A CANDIDATE Chris Harvie 43 'A HISTORIC MOMENT'? THE RESULTS OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS 2007 David Denver 61 WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION IN THE 2007 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT: TEMPORARY SETBACK OR RETURN TO THE NORM? Fiona Mackay and Meryl Kenny 80 WHY No BREAK-UP - So FAR? Bob Tait 94 REVIEW ESSAY: ELECTION 2007 - THE YEAR OF COURAGE? Owen Dudley Edwards 115 i
Scottish Affairs, no. 60, summer 200 REVIEW: A BOOK OF LIVES EberhardBort 140 REVIEW: CRIMES OF LOYALTY Steve Bruce 144 REVIEW: RETHINKING NATIONALISM Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings 148 REVIEW: REVITALISING GAELIC Sharon Macdonald 151 REVIEW: SCOTTISH DIASPORAS Tom Hubbard 155 REVIEW: GLOBAL SCOTS Kenny Kemp 158 REVIEW: FROM TROCCHI TO Trainspotting Gavin Miller 161 REFEREES, JUNE 2006 TO MAY 2007 166 ii
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