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Yes or no?
— Older people, politics and the Scottish Referendum in 2014 | | Author(s) | Jim Crowther, Ellen Boeren, Alan Mackie |
| Journal title | Research on Ageing and Social Policy, vol 6, no 1, Jan-June 2018 |
| Publisher | Hipatia Press, Jan-June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 1-25 |
| Source | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/rasp.2018.3095 |
| Keywords | Elections ; Participation ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | Scottish citizens actively participated in the political issues raised by the 2014 referendum on independence from the UK. The authors report on the issues, experiences and patterns of response to the independence referendum, with particular reference to older voters. By older voters, they are referring to the 61+ age group, although information cited from different opinion polls can refer to slightly different age ranges. They interpret the data through the lens of informal learning, that is, by understanding the referendum as a process of action and reflection that developed as people engaged with the arguments through different media and educative experiences in everyday life environments. This view differs markedly from the dominant narrative applied to explain the pattern of voting amongst older members of the Scottish electorate. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180417002 A |
| Classmark | VLE: TMB: 9A |
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