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Scotland

Social media

Policy

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/163759/0044572.pdf

Scottish Government Guidance on Framework Agreements

Law

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

Parties

Charities

News

http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

Forums

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

Pirate Party UK

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page

Pirate Party UK forum
- Pirate Party UK forum (Scotland)

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

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/

Philosophy / policy

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

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

to break out http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/07/02/dragonbox-learning-algebra/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359458

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/

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

Geographical

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

Collectivism

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

Politics

http://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

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

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

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

http://redecentralize.org/

Reform and mixed

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

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

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

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

Democracy

http://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 [1]

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

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

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/

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."