Chapter 9 Web links to data sets

Chapter nine: Governing from Below

  1. StatsWales

This website includes several data sets concerning the Welsh government. Take a look at the local government data via the link provided, including the national survey results (2014-15) regarding both ‘Democracy and understanding’ and ‘Local Authority level’.

https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Local-Government

  1. Scottish nationalism

The British Social Attitudes surveys contain great succinct findings along with graphs full of useful data. The findings show that support for Scottish independence has not dimmed given the EU referendum results. However, independence supporters are linked to pro-EU attitudes. Linking to this chapter’s topic of devolution, think about what this means for the power dynamic between England and Scotland.

https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/media/39220/bsa_35_scotland.pdf

  1. Northern Ireland

Turning to Northern Ireland, this data-driven article claims that Britons increasingly care less whether Northern Ireland remains in the UK. This is interesting to consider, linking to whether devolution is strong enough to keep this problem at bay or whether independence is inevitable.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/04/22/brits-increasingly-dont-care-whether-northern-irel

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