By the year 1999 Scotland will have a new Parliament, the first in Scotland since 1707. This Parliament will not make Scotland a homogenous entity. Within months of the country-wide endorsement in September 1997 of a devolved Parliament divisions were already apparent, as Scotland’s two major cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, were involved in a public debate over which city should be the temporary...

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This study develops a novel analytical approach to studying cross-national variation in popular conceptions of the nation-state that accounts for both withinand between-country heterogeneity and avoids reductive a priori assumptions about the national boundedness of culture. I use latent class analysis to identify common attitudinal patterns among a pooled sample of 27,790 respondents from thir...