After Independence: The State of the Scottish Nation Debate

Brought together in a nonpartisan, inclusive way with each contributor invited to write for the general reader and as accessibly as possible, After Independence collects essays from more than two dozen leading thinkers, academics, and commentators to offer the most comprehensive and detailed examination of the terrain and possibilities of Scottish independence and self-government both constitutionally and beyond. Scotland faces a historic and fundamental debate and choice: whether to become an independent nation or not. What kind of Scotland is possible economically and socially? What are the public spending and financial choices? And what of the role of culture and democracy? This book stimulates, provokes, and acts as an informed guide to these questions. Whatever the outcome of this debate, Scotland and indeed the UK will be changed irreversibly and irrevocably on how Scots see themselves as a society and how others see them.