
Alice Brown
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LOCATION: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Professor of Politics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Author of The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 Election and Beyond. Coauthor of Politics and Society in Scotland and others.
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Scotland, most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. The name Scotland derives from the Latin Scotia, land of the Scots, a Celtic people from Ireland who settled on the west coast of Great Britain about the 5th century ce. Theā¦
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