Author: Tom Gallagher | Journal of Democracy

Tom Gallagher is emeritus professor of politics at the University of Bradford, Great Britain. His most recent book is Scotland Now: A Warning to the World (2015).

January 2017, Volume 28, Issue 1

Britain After Brexit: Resistance from Scotland

Tom Gallagher

Just two years after voting to stay in the United Kingdom, Scotland voted to remain in the EU while Britain as a whole voted to leave. Is another independence referendum coming?

July 2009, Volume 20, Issue 3

Scottish Democracy in a Time of Nationalism

Tom Gallagher

The Scottish National Party proposes to free Scotland from its supposed tutelage to London, but betrays habits of political centralism and elitism that raise questions about the quality of democracy an independent Scotland would enjoy.