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- Title
More Than IndyRef2? The Referendums (Scotland) Act 2020.
- Authors
Clark, Alistair
- Abstract
Demands for a second Scottish independence referendum have persisted since 2014. The Scottish government introduced the Referendums (Scotland) Bill at Holyrood in May 2019 to enable referendums within the competence of the Scottish parliament. The Scottish National Party (SNP) government presented this as a framework enabling a range of referendums. Opponents saw this as legislating for a second independence referendum. The act will form a large part of the legal framework and rules for any second independence referendum. Importantly, the legislation provides innovation in electoral law more generally. This article discusses the background to the bill, its initial contents, and debates around and amendments to the bill. It discusses its electoral law innovations, before considering its limitations and place as constitutional debates play out over a second independence referendum.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; REFERENDUM; SCOTTISH National Party; NATIONALISM; SOCIAL democracy
- Publication
Political Quarterly, 2020, Vol 91, Issue 2, p467
- ISSN
0032-3179
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-923X.12861