Professor Michael Keating FRSE
Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen
Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Michael has taught in universities in Scotland, England and Canada and at the European University Institute in Florence. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he was also the first PhD to graduate from what is now Glasgow Caledonian University (1975).
He is a fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and European Academy. His research has covered comparative European politics, public policy and territorial politics and from 2013 to 2020 he was founding Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change in Edinburgh.
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Scots are increasingly polarised around issues of sovereignty, which have become central to contemporary Scottish politics.
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Advice Papers
The RSE welcomes the Medium-term Financial Strategy and Scottish Spending Review as well as the revision of the National Performance Framework. However, it is our view that these two initiatives need to be better joined up
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With a deterioration of intergovernmental relations, the RSE argues that devolution capability in Whitehall remains a weakness in government.
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Since the new framework, there is little evidence to suggest that relations have improved at the political level.
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The RSE supports the introduction and enforcement of robust measures to ensure grouse shooting is managed in a way that is compatible with wider environmental protection aims.
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The RSE responds to an inquiry looking at the role of trusted voices in combating the spread of misinformation.
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The RSE has submitted a response to the inquiry on Coronavirus and Scotland by the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee.
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The RSE has responded to a consultation from the Migration Advisory Committee on a salary threshold and points-based migration system
