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Struthers, Alison E. C. (2022) The great Anglo-Scottish human rights divide. Scottish Affairs, 31 (1). pp. 21-40. doi:10.3366/scot.2022.0395 ISSN 0966-0356.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0395
Abstract
There arguably exists something of a great human rights divide stretching across the ninety-six miles of the Anglo-Scottish border from the Solway Firth on the west coast to the town of Lamberton in the east. As Scotland appears to take impressive strides forward in human rights implementation, England seems to lag ever further behind international best practice. But how can two countries so closely linked in central governance display such seemingly divergent attitudes and approaches to human rights? This article seeks to explore this apparent polarisation in more detail and to investigate the factors that might be underlying it. In particular, it questions whether Scotland is more progressive when it comes to human rights because the people are more accepting of human rights as a concept worth upholding, or whether this ostensible national acceptance of human rights is instead clever political posturing on the part of the Scottish Government to paint a picture of a country that differs to such an extent from its southern neighbour that it really ought to be independent.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Scottish Affairs | ||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0966-0356 | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 31 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 21-40 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3366/scot.2022.0395 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Scottish Affairs. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/scot.2022.0395 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 May 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2022 |
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