ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that Politics in Scotland at the present time and in the short-medium term can best be explained around three dimensions. The second related dimension is about the roles and positions taken by key institutional players around the Scottish national dimension to politics. The third dimension around which Scottish politics can be studied is the extent and nature of new politics. The Scottish Parliament was designed as a unicameral institution and its electoral system established partly to ensure no single party could gain an overall majority. Unicameral arrangements clearly impose a greater burden on the legislature in terms of legislative and scrutiny processes. The book indicates that existing devolved powers could conceivably be used to craft radically different Scottish policies, though the political feasibility of this may be another matter.
