An assessment of the economic potential of alternative uses for Scottish land currently used for grouse shooting.

A plan to rapidly restore Scotland’s local democracy.

This paper looks at the vulnerabilities in the UK’s electoral process in the form of the lax regulation around digital political adverts.

Peter Ryan examines the expansion of data collection and its use as a tool for the manipulation of elections.S everal recommendations are made which will help safeguard our democracy against unfair or malicious influence from companies or foreign states.

In the second paper of a series examining the Sustainable Growth Commission’s report, Common Weal looks at Fiscal Policy and provides an alternative prospectus based on ensuring wellbeing and equality for the people of Scotland.

An update to the study published in early 2017, this paper examines trends in polling on the question of Scottish independence to look at shifts in attitudes amongst groups such as the developing trends based on voter age, income, gender and nationality.

Common Weal’s submission to the Scottish Government on the Open Government Partnership.