Conversations on the Political Economy of Constitutional Change in Scotland

该项目将提供一系列涉及苏格兰社会科学家、商人和政策制定者的高层“对话”。其目的是促进知识交流，利用社会科学研究，在苏格兰有关宪法改革的政策辩论中为企业和政策制定者提供信息。重点是宪法改革的政治经济学：不同的宪法选择可能影响经济政策和表现的方式。这项知识交流活动将由一个由学者、商界人士和政策制定者组成的联络小组设计，目的是建立证据基础，并在苏格兰民族党（SNP）政府计划的宪法公投之前，对宪法改革的经济层面进行实证分析。我们提出冷静和无党派的证据和分析，将苏格兰特定的和英国范围内对宪法改革的政治经济学的考虑结合起来。证据和分析将在四个“对话”中呈现，这些对话将连接不同的部门，并使社会科学研究对苏格兰政策界（知识交流联系已经很强）和商界（学术与商业联系较弱）都有好处。由爱丁堡大学政府学院和面向企业的大卫休谟研究所召集的一个由学者、商界人士和政策制定者组成的联络小组将确定证据来源、委托分析、确定三个部门的主要对话者参与对话，并通过针对不同商业、政策和学术受众的渠道传播对话的内容和结论。

This project will deliver a series of high-level 'conversations' involving social scientists, businesspeople and policymakers in Scotland. The aim is to foster knowledge exchange that uses social science research to inform business and policymaker views in policy debates on constitutional change in Scotland. The focus is on the political economy of constitutional change: the ways in which alternative constitutional choices may impact on economic policy and performance. This knowledge exchange activity will be designed by a liaison group of academics, businesspeople and policymakers to produce and evidence base, and make possible evidence-based analysis of the economic dimensions of constitutional change in the run-up to the constitutional referendum planned by Scotland's SNP government. We propose dispassionate and non-partisan evidence and analysis that brings together Scotland-specific and UK-wide considerations on the political economy of constitutional change. The evidence and analysis will be presented in four 'conversations' that bridge different sectors and bring social science research to the benefit both of the Scottish policy community (where knowledge exchange links are already strong) and the business community (where academic-business links are weaker). A liaison group of academics, businesspeople and policy makers convened by the Academy of Government at the University of Edinburgh and the business-facing David Hume Institute will identify sources of evidence, commission analysis, identify key interlocutors across the three sectors to engage in the conversations, and disseminate the content and conclusions of the conversations through channels targeted to distinct business, policy and academic audiences.