Bridget Taylor is Research Officer at the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) at Nuffield College, Oxford. Katarina Thomson is Research Director at Social and Community Planning Research and a member of the CREST team.

'...a paradigm of well-argued quantitative analysis, clearly presented for a wide audience and firmly placed in context...a very valuable book on the start of a new era in British electoral studies.' Parliamentary Affairs '...essential reading for all interested in referendums, devolution and Scottish and Welsh politics.' EPOP Newsletter

• Introduction, Bridget Taylor and Katarina Thomson; referendums, David Butler; the Scottish and Welsh referendum campaigns, David McCrone and Bethan Lewis; the 1997 Welsh referendum vote, Richard Wyn Jones and Dafydd Trystan; the 1997 Scottish referendum vote, David McCrone and Paula Surridge; were the Welsh and Scottish referendums second order elections?, Anthony Heath and Bridget Taylor; why was 1997 different?, Geoffrey Evans and Dafydd Trystan; does civil society drive constitutional change?, Richard Wyn Jones and Lindsay Paterson; Welsh devolution - the past and the future, Kenneth O. Morgan; The Scottish political system revisited, James G. Kellas; conclusion, Bridget Taylor and Katarina Thomson; technical appendix.