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Scotland

Edinburgh

Local

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Scottish_Local_Authorities

http://www.cosla.gov.uk/

National

BBC Democracy Live Scotland
BBC Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
Scottish Information Commissioner - Facebook
The Electoral Commission: Scotland

http://www.youtube.com/user/ScottishParl?

http://constitutionalcommission.org/index.php

Social media

Policy

Scottish Policy Now

Policy Scotland, Research and Knowledge Exchange,

IPPR - the Institute for Public Policy Research, is the UK's leading progressive thinktank

European Public Sector Information Platform

govcampscotland.com

Public Contracts Scotland - This portal gives free access to contract opportunities in Scotland

Participation and Engagement in Politics and Policy Making

Scottish Government Guidance on Framework Agreements

Reform Scotland is a public policy institute or 'think tank' which was established as a separate Scottish charity, completely independent of any political party or any other organisation and funded by donations from individuals, charitable trusts and corporate organisations. Its objective is to set out policies in Scotland that deliver increased economic prosperity and more effective public services based on the traditional Scottish principles of limited government, diversity and personal responsibility.

Republic Scotland is part of the wider Republic campaign. We want to see the monarchy abolished and the Queen replaced with an elected, democratic head of state. In place of the Queen we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but representing the nation independently of our politicians.

http://nationalcollective.com/

http://www.scotlink.org/

Law

http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php?country=s

Parties

Charities

http://www.equality-network.org/

http://www.scottishtrans.org/

https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/

http://www.pfc.org.uk/

http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/

News

http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

Forums

History

http://www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk/wb/

Parties

UK

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/

http://openlylocal.com/

BBC Daily and Sunday Politics
BBC Scottish Politics

The Electoral Commission: UK

r/ukpolitics/

http://www.electionleaflets.org/

rightsnet.org.uk - welfare rights

Media

BBC News Front page
- BBC News Video stream

BBC: Daily and Sunday Politics

http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive

El Reg Biting the hand that feeds IT

The Big Project News
Chipwrapper Search UK newspapers

BBC News: The Editors del.icio.us

http://the-libertarian.co.uk/

Prediction

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

http://www.iagr.ee/

EU

http://www.euronews.com/europa/europe/

Scottish MEPs
EurActiv EU news & policy debates

http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule.cfm

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4755.en.html

http://www.copyrightreform.eu/

http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-5000100.htm

USA

http://memeorandum.com

http://wwww.librenews.us/

http://www.baudrillardsblender.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870078

World

http://www.transparency.org/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty

Philosophy / policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_politics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement

Progressive Politics for a New Era - Jon Cruddas MP visits the RSA to discuss unleashing creativity in a fast paced world, to enable people to shape a better future for themselves and others.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stop-churches-marrying-anyone-says-bisexual-british-political-leader080113 - secularism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemotherapy-that-costs-70000-in-the-us-costs-2500-in-india/274847/ - patent reform

http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Related_projects

http://www.networked-politics.info/

Economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_economy - a third sector among economies between the private (business) and public sectors (government). It includes organizations such as cooperatives, nonprofit organizations and charities. Social economy theory attempts to situate these organizations into a broader political economic context. In particular it investigates the economic viability of cooperatives and the value of non-profit organizations and charities in traditional economic theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_ideology

http://www.neweconomics.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sector

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindful_economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309882

Computing the Perfect Model: Why Do Economists Shun Simulation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097734

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/09/goldthorpe-social-supermarket-community-shop-food-poverty

Moneyless.org - A Rich Life without Money. Tips, Blogs, Stories, Books

Capitalism

http://activatecomix.com/162-1-1.comic

Reform and mixed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power

http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/publications.asp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814383

http://www.compassonline.org.uk/about/

Basic income

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Confessions of A Job Destroyer [1]

Democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/10/what-does-confidence-and-supply-mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_choice_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Choice_and_Individual_Values
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

Voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule

http://blog.forcerank.it/counting-votes-is-hard [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system

Geo/eco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology

Collectivism

See Living

http://www.uk.coop/

http://www.id-coop.eu/en/KeyConcepts/Pages/Cooperativism.aspx

http://party.coop/

http://scotland.party.coop/
- http://www.party.coop/files/2011/07/Scottish-Manifesto-2011.pdf

http://www.governancehub.org.uk/

http://www.governancecode.org/

Libertarian socialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialist

focus on individuals and bottom-up group association, better social process ownership

trend in anarchist circles to hate communists because their style of process fucked up leftism in russia and thus for people other places, though they really just hate big C communists, and this is somewhat legacy groupthink. see the existence of libertarian communists

http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power - direct reformist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

http://redecentralize.org/

Anarchism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

https://soundcloud.com/jamie-heckert-1/love-freedom-a-gentle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/10/11/the-tea-party-is-giving-anarchism-a-bad-name/

http://dingpolitik.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/anarchisms-other-scene/

http://www.socialanarchism.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

Communism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Communism

https://www.youtube.com/user/brendanmcooney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism

Mutualism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
- http://www.mutuo.co.uk/about/

Syndicalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

Agorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism - a libertarian social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution. It was first proposed by libertarian philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III in 1975, with contributions partly by J. Neil Schulman.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Agorism

Libertarian municipalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin - social ecology vs. deep ecology, social anarchism vs. lifestyle anarchism, anarchism vs. communalism debates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism
- http://www.social-ecology.org/1991/04/libertarian-municipalism-an-overview/
- http://www.zcommunications.org/assessing-libertarian-municipalism-by-michael-albert

What is Communalism? - The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism
- "Where liberal thought generally reduced the social to the economic, various socialisms (apart from Marxism), among which Kropotkin denoted anarchism the "left wing," dissolved the economic into the social."