Research

Peer-reviewed publications

Vampa, Convery and McMillan, forthcoming. “Symbiotic Polarization as a Barrier to Populist Radical Right Success: Scottish Exceptionalism in Comparative Context”. Political Studies.

Larner, Johns, Henderson, McMillan and Carman, 2025. “Political Scandals and Vertical Contagion in Multilevel Systems”. British Journal of Political Science.

Matthieß, Vodová and McMillan, 2025. “Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment”. Party Politics.

Griffiths, Wyn Jones, Poole, Larner, Henderson and McMillan, 2023. “Diverging Electoral Fortunes in Scotland and Wales: National Identities, National Interest and Voting Behaviour”. Regional and Federal Studies.

Turnbull-Dugarte and McMillan, 2022. “Protect the women!” Trans-exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights. Policy Studies Journal.

Greene and McMillan, 2020. The independence echo: the rise of the constitutional question in Scottish election manifestos and voter behaviour. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

McMillan. 2019. Devolution, “new politics” and election pledge fulfilment in Scotland, 1999–2011. British Politics.

Book chapters

Favotto, Kollman and McMillan, 2023. “Responsible lobbyists? CSR commitments and the quality of corporate parliamentary testimony in the UK”. Chapter in Corporate Political Responsibility, Cambridge University Press, edited by Lyon.

McMillan and Henderson, 2025. “Lifecycle vs cohort effects: disentangling the relationship between age and support for independence in Scotland”. Chapter in Generations and Nationalism, edited by Turgeon and Gagnon.

Other publications

McMillan and Henderson, 2021. “Scotland’s Future? The 2021 Holyrood Election”. Political Insight.

McMillan and Johns, 2021. “Nats Wha Hae”. IPPR Progressive Review.

McMillan, 2021. “Parliamentary Election in Scotland, 6th May 2021”. BLUE N° 1.

Preprints

Brandenburg, McMillan and Thomson, 2019. Does it Matter if Parties Keep their Promises? The Impact of Voter Evaluations of Pledge Fulfilment on Vote Choice.

Doctoral thesis

McMillan, F. 2019. The Meaning of Mandates: Party Competition and the Programme-to-Policy Linkage. University of Strathclyde.