The Constitutional Future of Scotland and the United Kingdom

该研究计划将研究苏格兰宪法改革的选择，包括独立，以及它们对英国和苏格兰未来的影响。它将提供证据，帮助选民了解将于2014年9月举行的独立公投之前的关键问题以及公投结果的意义和后果。从长远来看，它将建立一个由政治学、经济学和法学学者参与的研究中心，以加强能力，就与宪法改革有关的社会、经济和政治挑战产生新的知识。该提案建立在现有研究的基础上，包括一些已经得到英国和苏格兰ESRC未来支持的投资。它包括在方案的四个主题-苏格兰以外的关系、经济、治理和未来苏格兰-中的每一个主题下的两个项目。对公民和精英行为的研究贯穿于这些主题中的每一个。这些项目都涉及重新调整的后果，即经济、社会和政治制度向新的层次迁移，这些层次以复杂的方式相互联系。无论公投结果如何，苏格兰的宪法未来都将在不列颠群岛、欧盟及其他地区的一系列总体“联盟”中发展。这将对苏格兰--和英国--政府在所有宪法情景下可以做些什么施加一些限制。研究采用了法律的分析、政治和政策分析、经济建模和行为分析，以探讨不同宪法选择的影响。每个项目都包括来自不同学科的学者之间的合作。有公民调查和企业领导人调查，以确定对部分知识，风险和不确定性的情况下，他们的偏好排序的反应。比较的使用也贯穿于项目中。对苏格兰在英国的未来的分析提供了现代国家更广泛变革的案例研究。这些项目的相互关联性是该提案的一个主要特点，项目的初步研究结果将用于其他项目的研究发展等，通过一系列以用户为中心的活动，将研究结果用于向公众、决策者和媒体提供信息，并产生新的知识，以促进对宪法变革动态的理解。

This programme of research will examine the options for Scottish constitutional change, including independence, and their implications for the future of the UK and Scotland. It will provide evidence to help inform voter understanding of the key issues ahead of the independence referendum to be held in September 2014, and of the significance and consequences of the referendum result. In the longer term, it will develop a research centre involving academics from political science, economics and law to strengthen the capacity for the generation of new knowledge on the social, economic and political challenges associated with constitutional change. The proposal builds upon existing research, including some investments already supported by the ESRC Future of the UK and Scotland. It includes two projects within each of the four themes of the programme - relations beyond Scotland, the economy, governance, and future Scotland. Research on citizen and elite behaviour cuts across each of these themes. The projects all address consequences of rescaling, that is, the migration of economic, social and political systems to new levels, which are connected in complex ways. Whatever the outcome of the referendum, Scotland's constitutional future will develop within a series of overarching 'unions' within the British Isles, the European Union and beyond. These will place some constraints on what a Scottish - and UK - government could do under all constitutional scenarios.The research employs legal analysis, political and policy analysis, economic modeling and behavioural analysis to explore the implications of different constitutional options. Each project includes collaboration between scholars from different disciplines. There are surveys of citizena and business leaders survey to ascertain responses to situations of partial knowledge, risk and uncertainty, and their ranking of preferences. The use of comparison also runs through the projects. Analysis of the future of Scotland in the UK provides case study of the broader transformations of the state in modern times. The inter-related nature of the projects is a key feature of the proposal, with preliminary findings from projects feeding into the development of the research in others, and so on. Findings from the will be used to inform understanding among the public, policy-makers and the media, through a range of user-focused activities, as well as to generate new knowledge to advance understanding of the dynamics of constitutional change.