Gerry Hassan


Gerry Hassan is a Scottish writer, commentator and academic. He currently holds an Honorary Professor title at Glasgow Caledonian University for Social Change, having previously worked at the University of Dundee and the University of the West of Scotland, where he completed his doctorate. He has also previously worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos where he led their Scotland 2020 and Glasgow 2020 programmes and OpenDemocracy. He has written for the Scottish and UK press, including The Spectator, The Scotsman, The Herald, Holyrood, Sunday Mail, The Guardian and The National (Scotland) on topics and issues related to the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland and Scottish Independence.

Books/Publications

  • The New Scotland, 1998
  • A Guide to the Scottish Parliament: The Shape of Things To Come, 1999
  • A Different Future: A Moderniser’s Guide to Scotland, 1999
  • The New Scottish Politics: The First Year of the Scottish Parliament and Beyond, 2000
  • The Almanac of Scottish Politics, 2001
  • Tomorrow’s Scotland, 2002
  • Anatomy of the New Scotland: Power, Influence and Change, 2002
  • Staying Human: Respect, Values and Social Justice, 2003
  • The Scottish Labour Party: History, Institutions and Ideas, 2004
  • The Political Guide to Modern Scotland: People, Places and Power, 2004
  • Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005
  • After Blair: Politics After the New Labour Decade, 2006
  • The Dreaming City: Glasgow 2020 and the Power of Mass Imagination, 2007
  • The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power, 2009
  • Radical Scotland: Arguments for Self-Determination, 2011
  • ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland’s Future, 2011
  • The Strange Death of Labour Scotland, 2012
  • The Seven Wonders of Scotland, 2012
  • After Independence: The State of the Scottish Nation Debate, 2013
  • Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland, 2014
  • Independence of the Scottish Mind: Elite Narratives, Public Spaces and the Making of a Modern Nation, 2014
  • Scotland's Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives, 2016
  • Scottish National Party Leaders, 2016
  • Scotland the Bold: How Our Nation Changed and Why There is No Going Back, 2016
  • Scotland, the UK and Brexit: A Guide to the Future, 2017
  • A Nation Changed?: The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On, 2017
  • The People's Flag and the Union Jack: An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party, 2019
  • Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019
  • The Story of the Scottish Parliament: The First Two Decades Explained, 2019
  • Scotland after the Virus, 2020
  • A Better Nation: The Challenges of Scottish Independence, 2022
  • Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence, 2022
  • Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope and Labour's Challenge, 2024