01931nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100002300060245012700083260002900210300003300239520125400272650006901526773002901595906002201624942000701646952010801653  c514063d514063201005b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMeer, Nasar918234  aRace equality policy making in a devolved context: assessing the opportunities and obstacles for a ‘Scottish approach’  aJournal of Social Policy  a49(2), Apr, 2020: p. 233-250  aThere is a burgeoning literature that suggests that, across a number of social policy domains, ‘Scotland is different’. Hitherto however, race equality policy has been largely overlooked and this article addresses this within the context of recent and historical developments in a devolved policy context. Adopting a mixed-method case-study analysis, including thirty-two semi-structured interviews with civil society and Scottish Government, the article shows how policy actors lack a consensus on the underlying causes of racial inequality, in ways that may impede policy making. In this sense, the article shows how Scotland ‘orbits’ around existing settlements, rather than necessarily setting off in a new course that goes beyond the fact of contingency. The implications of this analysis have a much broader relevance, including an account of how race equality policy opportunities encounter political obstacles, in a way that bears both specific and generalizable qualities. These include the role of policy coalitions in holding and promoting a coherent set of positions, the particularity of race as an idea or ‘cognitive problem’, and how prevailing narratives about national identities can feed into this process. - Reproduced  aRace discrimination - Scotland, Scotland - Race relations918235  aJournal of Social Policy  aRACISM - SCOTLAND  cAR  00102ddc40709388080aIIPAbIIPAd2020-10-05h49(2), Apr, 2020: p. 233-250pAR123120r2020-10-05yAR