POLS 3960 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 18 Months, Uk Healthcare, Economic Inequality
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Scotland and identity politics scotland, the referendum and identity politics: What we"re doing today: what is plurinationalism, what is scottish identity anyways, how are federalism and devolution different, how did the referendum come about, what happened, scotland identity and independence post-referendum. What is pluri-nationalism: does every community a state, a sense of community that corresponds to the boundary of the country itself/sovereign state. France boundaries of the nation (people who think of themselves as a collective) correspond to the physical boundaries of the country. Uk encompasses england, wales, scotland, northern ireland example of what isn"t: we could have hundreds and hundreds of nation states if every nation has a state. Accommodation of national, linguistic, ethnic or religious communities through territorially based autonomy: pluri-nationalism is a way of giving territorial autonomy to a community as a way of managing difference in a country.