Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Introduction: Scotland's democratic nationalism -- 1.1 Scotland's separatist nationalism -- 1.2 Two problems of research related to Scottish nationalism -- 1.2.1 The Collectives of nationalism -- 1.2.2 Forms of nationalism and functional differentiation -- 1.3 Thesis on Scotland's democratic nationalism -- 1.4 Outline of the Study -- 2 Motives for and against secession -- 2.1 Motives for secession -- 2.1.1 Input‐Inclusion: Self‐Government -- 2.1.2 Output‐Inclusion: "the favourable winds of globalisation" -- 2.2 Motives against secession -- 2.2.1 Costs -- 2.2.2 Regional autonomy -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Political collective -- 3.1 Voluntarist and residential demarcation -- 3.2 Voting rights: "the people who live and work here" -- 3.2.1 Comparison with the UK -- 3.2.2 Comparison with other secession referendums -- 3.2.3 Concluding the comparisons -- 3.3 Radicalising the regional inclusion and exclusion -- 3.4 Automatic citizenship: Traces of ethnic exclusion -- 3.5 Explaining the political collective -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 A national commitment -- 4.1 National value commitment -- 4.2 Political ideology -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 National collective -- 5.1 Context of origin: Globalisation of sport -- 5.2 Taking the national anthem from the people -- 5.3 The meaning of the anthem -- 5.3.1 Forging the Scottish nation -- 5.3.2 Modern sports, auld enemies -- 5.4 Conclusion: Two collectives -- 6 Coupling the political and national collectives -- 6.1 Planning a national symbol: It takes a team -- 6.2 The nation: designed and engraved -- 6.2.1 Designing the nation with the people -- 6.2.2 Engraving the nation: National artefacts -- 6.3 Political tradition by and in action: Scottish politics -- 6.3.1 Westminster's majority‐orientation -- 6.3.2 Scottish consensus‐orientation.

6.4 Conclusion: Sociocultural evolution of the Scottish Parliament -- 7 Religious unionism and separatism -- 7.1 Clergy - "present the arguments" -- 7.1.1 Neutral churches -- 7.1.2 Fundamentalist churches -- 7.1.3 Preventing ethnic conflict -- 7.2 Believers of unionism and separatism -- 7.3 Discussion -- 7.3.1 The clergy's neutrality as responsiveness -- 7.3.2 Explaining protestant unionism -- 7.3.3 Religious and political autonomy: Ecumenism -- 8 Higher education and national universalism -- 8.1 Mechanisms of Scottish universalism -- 8.1.1 Protection of the Scottish Reformation -- 8.1.2 Small‐Town grammar schools -- 8.1.3 Reform of university teaching -- 8.1.4 Thematic inclusivity of the university -- 8.1.5 Social inclusion of the Scottish university -- 8.2 Scottishness and university -- 8.3 Internationalisation and nationalisation -- 9 Political and economic autonomies -- 9.1 Currency union -- 9.2 Anticipating the question of currency -- 9.3 Autonomy by pluralisation of dependencies -- 10 Gaelic in democratic nationalism -- 10.1 Multicultural integration by Gaelic -- 10.2 Celtic revival: From virtue to sentimentality -- 10.3 European multiculturalism -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Conclusion -- 11.1 Summary -- 11.2 Comparing democratic and autocratic nationalism -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Index.