TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallagher, Tom.
TI  - The illusion of freedom: Scotland under nationalism
SN  - 9781850659969
U1  - 320.540GAL 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Hurst
KW  - Scottish National Party
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-258) and index
N2  - Alex Salmond's Scottish National Party is currently mounting Scotland's biggest challenge to the British union since the conception of the nation. Nevertheless, as Tom Gallagher makes clear, if the Union were demolished, widespread change would still remain elusive. Close-knit administrative, commercial, and religious elites continue to run Scotland with no strategy for reviving its economy and reforming its urban centers. Gallagher contends that the SNP is not committed to independence. Rather, it exists as a super-unionist party recoiling from popular sovereignty, seeking instead the federalist rule of a postnational Europe
ER  -