David McCrone

Institution

University of Edinburgh

Job title

Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Email address

d.mccrone@ed.ac.uk

Biography

David McCrone is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, and co-founder of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Governance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively on the sociology and politics of Scotland, and the comparative study of nationalism. His book, with Frank Bechhofer, ‘Understanding National Identity’, will be published by Cambridge University Press early in 2015.

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Posts by this author

Attitudes and Behaviours

Who do you say you are? The politics of national identity

26 August 2020 | David McCrone

David McCrone analyses the politics of national identity in Scotland comparing it to England's sense of national identity for his chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics.

Attitudes and Behaviours

Keeping Perspectives

16 December 2019 | David McCrone

Instead of focusing on the success of the SNP, we should compare the Labour and Conservative vote share in Scotland and England since 1945, states David McCrone, University of Edinburgh.

Devolution

People O’ Oor Ain

6 June 2019 | David McCrone

In the first instalment of our series on devolution at twenty, the University of Edinburgh’s David McCrone shares his thoughts on the success of the Scottish Parliament.

Brexit

Be Careful What You Wish For

12 June 2017 | David McCrone

David McCrone on the vulnerability of the current UK Conservative government, faced with negotiating Brexit. Be careful what you wish for next time around...

Devolution

How Come it's Like this?

7 June 2017 | David McCrone

The party of Union may well end up its gravedigger, says David McCrone, if the battle for independence settles down to a long war between ‘progressive’ Scotland and ‘reactionary’ England with a right-wing government at Westminster coupled with a Scottish Tory outlier and cheer-leader.

Independence and the Union

Are Scots European?

21 July 2016 | David McCrone

Judging by the referendum result, it may seem obvious that Scots are more European than their neighbours to the south but, says David McCrone, the binary choice in a referendum masks a more complex picture.