James Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0532-4568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 125 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 514 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Sturgeon Years
Nicola Sturgeon's memoir Frankly is a less than frank account of her political career though combining it with research on the SNP dating back to her early days as an SNP activist provides insights into her style of leadership and the internal politics of the SNP. Understanding the former SNP leader's tendency to project her own weaknesses onto opponents is key to making sense of this extremely talented campaigner's career but also her failures a…
Outcome Measures in intellectual disability: A Review and narrative synthesis of validated instruments
BACKGROUND: Outcome measurement is essential to determine the effectiveness of health interventions and improve the quality of services. The interplay of social, individual, and biological factors makes this a complex process in the psychiatry of people with intellectual disability (PwID). AIM: Review of outcome measures which are validated in PwID. METHODS: A PRISMA-guided review was conducted, using a predefined criteria and a relevant word com…
Benjamin Tausig. 2025. Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies
Benjamin Tausig. 2025. Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 262 pp. ISBN 978-1478031703 (pbk). https://www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-after-dark
Oceania: Australian Popular Music Writer’s Night at the University of Sydney
This transcript records the conversation between seven authors of volumes in the 33 1/3 Oceania influential album series, published by Bloomsbury since 2022. The authors discuss the varied approaches taken in the series and outline the development of their own book. A range of key issues are explored, including editor and reader response, the tension between academic and popular writing, the ‘album’ concept as nostalgia, and access to the artists
Organizing Government for the 21 st Century
The last major reorganization of the federal government was undertaken by Prime Minister Campbell in 1993. Today, there is a new set of considerations that a new government must bear in mind to deal with a very different and much more uncertain world. This article responds to three of the articles in the December 2024 special edition of this journal by identifying ten of these new vectors, grouped under four inter‐related headings: 1) The global …
Why is Reforming Holyrood so Hard
This brief response to the article by Kerr and Bundy in this issue notes the helpful contribution made by their proposals. It also notes that others have previously made such suggestions, and poses the question: why is it so hard to reform Holyrood
Two cheers for Holyrood: Devolution and Dimensions of Fiscal Accountability
Claims that there was a lack of accountability had been part of the backdrop to campaigns for a Scottish Parliament. Accountability had been one of the four principles that informed the Consultative Steering Group, set up by the UK Government to draw up procedures and working practices for the Scottish Parliament. After a discussion of different types of accountability, the paper considers the extent to which greater accountability has been achie…
Shifting sands: Sources of voter volatility in the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland
In one sense, the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland provided a significant departure from what we have come to expect from elections in the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum, returning thirty-seven Labour MPs on just over a third of the vote. The declining support for the SNP, down fifteen percentage points but losing thirty-nine seats while support for independence remained at 45%, suggested that the Scottish electorate had decoup…
Constructing density forecasts from quantile regressions: Multimodality in macrofinancial dynamics
Quantile regression methods are increasingly used to forecast tail risks and uncertainties in macroeconomic outcomes. This paper reconsiders how to construct predictive densities from quantile regressions. We compare a popular two‐step approach that fits a specific parametric density to the quantile forecasts with a nonparametric alternative that lets the “data speak.” Simulation evidence and an application revisiting GDP growth uncertainties in …
Censored density forecasts: Production and evaluation
This paper develops methods for the production and evaluation of censored density forecasts. The focus is on censored density forecasts that quantify forecast risks in a middle region of the density covering a specified probability and ignore the magnitude but not the frequency of outlying observations. We propose a fixed‐point algorithm that fits a potentially skewed and fat‐tailed density to the inner observations, acknowledging that the outlyi…
Real‐Time Perceptions of Historical GDP Data Uncertainty
GDP is measured with error. But data uncertainty is rarely communicated quantitatively in real‐time. An exception are the fan charts for historical real GDP growth published by the Bank of England. To assess how well data uncertainty is understood, we first evaluate the accuracy of the historical fan charts. We find that data uncertainties can be accurately quantified, even without judgement, using past revisions data. Secondly, we conduct an onl…
Reconciled Estimates of Monthly GDP in the United States
In the United States, income and expenditure-side estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) (GDPI and GDPE) measure “true” GDP with error and are available at a quarterly frequency. Methods exist for using these proxies to produce reconciled quarterly estimates of true GDP. In this paper, we extend these methods to provide reconciled historical true GDP estimates at a monthly frequency. We do this using a Bayesian mixed frequency vector autoregre…
From Team Nicola to Team Humza: The SNP Leadership Contest 2023 in Perspective
This article puts the 2023 SNP leadership contest in the context of the changing nature of party leadership, strategy to achieve independence and the backdrop to Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation. The SNP has experienced a radical change in its internal organisation with power concentrated in the leadership and the hollowing out of its internal democratic structures. Each candidate rejected Sturgeon’s proposal that the next UK election should be used…
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government
This article reassesses the attempt by the Labour government in 1979 to overcome challenges faced without an overall majority; the collapse of the Lib‐Lab Pact; internal party dissent; and referendum results on Scottish and Welsh devolution. The efforts to patch together a parliamentary majority with other parties’ MPs while allaying opponents of devolution within the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) ultimately failed. Although the chronology of …
Fiscal devolution and the accountability gap: Budget scrutiny following tax devolution to Scotland
Financing regional government involves trade-offs between own-source taxes and grants. Improved accountability has been an argument behind calls for greater tax devolution, but this argument relies upon effective scrutiny mechanisms existing or being developed. This paper explores such issues through the lens of recent tax devolution to Scotland. Drawing on insights from senior stakeholders, we assess how scrutiny has changed in the aftermath of …
Careful What you Wish for? Risk and Reward with Scottish Tax Devolution
September 2022 marks twenty‐five years since the referendum on the creation of the Scottish Parliament. From the early days of devolution, debates over Holyrood's tax powers have been a recurring theme. Recent reforms to the Parliament's tax powers have been driven by the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Conservatives, an indirect coming together of arguments from two unlikely political allies. Both have, however, embraced arguments for g…
David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like campaign. Using data from a 2016–17 survey of the parties’ memberships, we examine why large numbers joined these pro-independence parties following defeat in the referendum. We demonstrate that th…
Questioning scrutiny: The effect of Prime Minister’s Questions on citizen efficacy and trust in parliament
Alan Converya, Pavielle Hainesb, James Mitchella & David C. W. Parkerc* a School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKb Department of Political Science, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USAc Department of Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USAAlan Convery is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Lead Editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relat…
Regional output growth in the United Kingdom: More timely and higher frequency estimates from 1970
Output growth estimates for regions of the UK are currently published at an annual frequency only, released with a long delay, and offer limited historical coverage. To improve the regional database this paper develops a mixed‐frequency multivariate model and uses it to produce consistent estimates of quarterly regional output growth dating back to 1970. We describe how these estimates are updated and evaluated on an ongoing, quarterly basis to p…
Tribes and Turbulence: The 2019 UK General Election in Scotland
The 2019
Rueang Khong Faen Phleng (Story of Fans): Social Politics in the Vintage Thai Music Revival
Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science
Uncertainty is an inherent part of knowledge, and yet in an era of contested expertise, many shy away from openly communicating their uncertainty about what they know, fearful of their audience's reaction. But what effect does communication of such epistemic uncertainty have? Empirical research is widely scattered across many disciplines. This interdisciplinary review structures and summarizes current practice and research across domains, combini…
R 2 Bounds for Predictive Models: What Univariate Properties Tell us About Multivariate Predictability
A long-standing puzzle in macroeconomic forecasting has been that a wide variety of multivariate models have struggled to out-predict univariate models consistently. We seek an explanation for this puzzle in terms of population properties. We derive bounds for the predictive R2 of the true, but unknown, multivariate model from univariate ARMA parameters alone. These bounds can be quite tight, implying little forecasting gain even if we knew the t…
The Thai Lao – Thailand's largest unrecognized transboundary national ethnicity
In 1900, the Lao ethnonym, and thus the Lao, ‘officially’ disappeared from Siam. However, Lao culture and identity persisted at local, regional, and national levels. As Keyes (1967) discovered, ‘a Northeast Thailand‐based ethno‐regionalism’ emerged post‐World War II. This regionalism, which we re‐term ‘Thai Lao’ and specify to the majority ethnic community, exists in a contested relationship with both ‘Thai’ and ‘Lao’ identity. The survival of th…
Valence Politics in Scotland: Towards an Explanation of the 2007 Election
In this article we use evidence from the Scottish Election Study 2007 to build an explanation for the narrow SNP victory in the Holyrood election. The theoretical focus is on valence models of voting, which are increasingly important in Scotland following dealignment and ideological convergence in the party system, and as Scottish governments flex their executive muscle. Exploring the valence battleground reveals mixed but overall negative evalua…
New parliament, new politics in Scotland
Journal Article New parliament, new politics in Scotland Get access J Mitchell J Mitchell University of Strathclyde, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 605–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.605 Published: 01 July 2000
Constitution or Competence? the SNP's Re-Election in 2011
The Scottish National Party's outright win in the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May 2011 confounded pre-election polls and commentaries as well as a (broadly) proportional electoral system which was held to minimise the risk of a Nationalist majority moving Scotland to independence. But an extraordinary result in historical context looks much more ordinary when we explore voters' attitudes and choices. According to data from the ESRC-funded S…
The Constituency Work of Members of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales: Approaches, Relationships and Rules
The Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales electoral systems created both constituency and list members. The article discusses hypotheses for exploring their behaviour and notes the particular context of regional party systems dominated to a greater or lesser extent by the Labour party. The authors find that constituency members of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly broadly conduct more constituency work than list memb…
Raising the tone? The impact of 'positive' and 'negative' campaigning on voting in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election
Partisanship, national identity and constitutional preferences: An exploration of voting in the Scottish devolution referendum of 1997
Social Constituency and Ideological Profile: Scottish Nationalism in the 1990s
Using data from the 1992 Scottish and British Election Surveys, the authors examine various models which might explain the changes in the level and type of Scottish National Party voting. In the analysis they are also concerned with voters for other parties who support the central SNP policy: independence, for Scotland. The protest, relative deprivation, identity, and new social movement models are stated and explored. The authors conclude that a…
The Evolution of Devolution: Labour‘s Home Rule Strategy in Opposition
THE LITERATURE ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO ETHNIC or peripheral demands suggests a continuum from meeting the challenge head on to conceding some or all of the demand. Strategies also have to be developed by parties in opposition. As the dominant party in Scotland, Labour found itself embroiled in the demand for constitutional change and having to respond in the 1980s. This created party management problems. The evolution of Labour's terri…
The unfortunate natural experiment in ballot design: The Scottish Parliamentary elections of 2007
Industrial Regions and Lobbying in the Structural Funds Reform Process
Brexit and Scotland
In the 2016 Brexit referendum, Scotland voted decisively to Remain in the EU, while a UK-wide majority voted to Leave. This article discusses responses to the constitutional significance of a territorially divided result, both prior to and following the referendum, including in litigation over the ‘constitutional requirements’ necessary to trigger the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU under Article 50 TEU ( R (Miller) v Secretary of State f…
The dimensionality of the Scottish political space: Results from an experiment on the 2011 Holyrood elections
This article introduces Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) as a data-generating tool that can be used to measure the positions of party supporters in multidimensional policy space. It begins with an overview of the state of the art as regards methods for locating parties on a common policy space, in terms of how data are gathered and also in terms of how policy dimensions are identified and measured. We then use a dimension reduction technique to …
Devolution and party change: Candidate selection for the 1999 Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly elections
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
Two Forms of Compulsive Consumption: Comorbidity of Compulsive Buying and Binge Eating
Several authors have articulated the need for broader theories or models to account for multiple forms of compulsive or addictive consumption. Development of these broader theories requires more information regarding the overlap and interrelationship of specific consumption disorders. Two studies are presented here to examine the comorbidity of compulsive buying and eating disorders involving binge eating. Study 1 found that women diagnosed as ha…
Lobbying 'Brussels: The Case of Scotland Europa
The increase in paradiplomacy the activities of regions below the level of the state in international politics particularly in matters of trade and economic affairs - has been noted by scholars of federal states. This paper draws on this literature to consider the background and debates within the United Kingdom, one of the most centralized states in the European Union, on the setting up of Scotland Europa, a Scot tish lobbying office in Brussels…
Monthly GDP estimates for inter-war Britain
Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male support for the SNP. While popular accounts have focused on…
Sea Change in Scotland
Devolution: Comparative Development and Policy Roles
In Scotland, after an early focus on the policy-making process, the agenda concentrated on distributive policies priorities; redistributive policy remained largely at Westminster. In Wales, there was similar concentration on distributive policies, but the Richard Commission will return process to the agenda. The 2003 election allowed Labour to form a single-party Executive and, with looming fiscal constraint, Labour is expected to concentrate on …
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like campaign. Using data from a 2016–17 survey of the parties’ memberships, we examine why large numbers joined these pro-independence parties following defeat in the referendum. We demonstrate that th…
The study of Scottish politics post‐devolution: New evidence, new analysis and new methods
All the First Minister's Men: The Truth Behind Holyrood. By D. Black. Edinburgh: Birlinn 2001. Pp.237, £7.99. ISBN 1841581674. New Scotland, New Politics. By A. Brown, J. Curtice and L. Paterson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2001. Pp.206, £14.99 ISBN 1902930258. The Scottish Electorate. By A. Brown and D. McCrone. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999. Pp.200, £17.99 (paper) ISBN 0333725263; £47.50 (cloth) ISBN 0333725255. Politics and Society in …
State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom Since 1707 ‐ by Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan and the Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom ‐ by Iain McLean
An Indicator of Monthly GDP and an Early Estimate of Quarterly GDP Growth
A range of monthly series are currently available giving indications of short-term movements in output in the UK. The main aim of this paper is to suggest a formal and coherent procedure for grossing these monthly data up to represent the whole of GDP. Although the resultant estimates of GDP would be worse than those obtained by direct measurement, they should be more satisfactory than simply making an informal inference from whatever monthly dat…
Devolution and Territorial Politics: Stability, Uncertainty and Crisis
Journal Article Devolution and Territorial Politics: Stability, Uncertainty and Crisis Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Mitchell James Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, 1 April 2002, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.2.299 Published: 01 April 2002
Tribes and Turbulence: The 2019 UK General Election in Scotland
The 2019
The End of the Maya Old Empire
The early nineteenth century witnessed a remarkable reversal of judgment on the American pre-Columbian cultures. Prescott's romantic histories and Lord Kingsborough's monumental Mexican Antiquities are inspirations of earlier and less sceptical eras. Such pleasing imaginings as that the Spaniards 'overthrew in Mexico a greater civilization than their own' received scant support from the archaeologist who had displaced the antiquary, or from the c…
Yucatan: New Empire Tribes and Culture Waves
In the first of these papersX dealing with certain problems in the history and archaeology of Ancient America an account was given of the Maya Old Empire and the possible causes which lead to its collapse in the fourth or sixth centuries A.D. The whole tract of Xibalba was probably deserted, its inhabitants scattered, and the alien theocracy which had inspired a great semi-civilization destroyed
Inka and pre-Inka
Few of the standard Peruvian histories-much less those politicofantastic tracts which hasty study of the Ancient Peruvian scene has evoked in such number-give any adequate idea of the tremendous cultural background against which the Inka civilization was built up, or of the fact that from that background emerge those archaeological exceptions which constantly question the theories of modern Americanists
The Conquest of the Maya
Limitations on the Contractual Liability of Public Authorities
Some Aspects Of Mutual Wills
The Treatment of Public Contracts in the United States
Learner's Licence
The Contracts of Public Authorities: A Comparative Study
The Contracts of Public Authorities. A Comparative Study
Journal Article The Contracts of Public Authorities. A Comparative Study Get access Mitchell J. D. B.The Contracts of Public Authorities. A Comparative Study. The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London). London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1954. Pp. xxxii, 256. Georges Langrod Georges Langrod *Professor of Law, University of the Saar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Jo…
Government and Labor in the Eisenhower Administration
Essay| September 01 1959 Government and Labor in the Eisenhower Administration James Mitchell James Mitchell United States Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Eisenhower in 1953, after a distinguished career in the public service. From 1942 to 1945, he was director of the industrial personnel division of the Headquarters of the Army Services Forces; thereafter, he returned to private industry until 1…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access J. D. B. MITCHELL J. D. B. MITCHELL University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXV, Issue 294, January 1960, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXV.294.184 Published: 01 January 1960
Executive Discretion Again
Colt: The Man, The Arms, The Company
The State of Public Law in the United Kingdom
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Administrative Law and Parliamentary Control
The Real Argument About Administrative Law
Comparative Government: A Constitutionalist's View
Ott & Brewer: Etruria in America
British institutions inside Europe: Accepting a new legal order
Social Science and Democratic Theory
Remarks by James Mitchell
I have been asked to comment on the US-Soviet trade agreement and the negotiations leading up to it. Negotiations began in December 1971, when Secretary of Commerce Stans made the first ministerial level contacts with the Soviet Union on trade and commercial matters. Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Patolichev returned the visit in May 1972, meeting with Stans’ successor, Peter Peterson. They got down to specifics on what each side wanted on trade m…
Government in Scotland
Journal Article GOVERNMENT IN SCOTLAND Get access J. D. B. Mitchell J. D. B. Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 1974mar, March 1974, Pages 302–304, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/27.1974mar.302 Published: 01 March 1974
Civil War Letters from James Mitchell to His Wife, Sarah Elizabeth Latta Mitchell
The Sovereignty of Parliament and Community Law: The Stumbling-Block That Isn't There
Journal Article The Sovereignty of Parliament and Community Law: The Stumbling-Block That Isn't There Get access J. D. B. Mitchell J. D. B. Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 33–46, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617131 Published: 01 January 1979
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