Devolution, Democracy and the Decline of the Scottish Left - Research Poster

This research poster acts as an introduction to some of the core ideas underpinning the arguments of my essay 'Devolution, Democracy and the Decline of the Scottish Left.' It is intended to provide several points of context, to reference some major figures I discuss, and to define some key concepts.
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Finn Smyth
Modern History Student , University of St. Andrews
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Thank you to my supervisor, Dr. Malcolm Petrie, for his knowledgeable guidance and advice during this project. Thank you also to the many experts I consulted for enlightening me with their considered opinions. And many thanks to Lord Laidlaw and the Laidlaw Foundation for their support. 

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Finn Smyth (He/Him)
Modern History Student , University of St. Andrews

Hi there! My name is Finn Smyth and I am a final year student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews. For the Laidlaw programme my research focused on how Left political organisations across Scotland have performed, organizationally and ideologically, since devolution. I am also interested in modern political economy, and the emergence of modern political communications strategies and how they have been used in political campaigns since the 1980s. 

My dissertation this year focuses on the modernisation of the Labour Party in the 1980s, and among recent projects I have been awarded grant funding to research the rise of populism in Europe alongside colleagues at Charles University, Prague.  

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