FRANK BECHHOFER is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he was Professor of Social Research until 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For more than a decade he has carried out research with David McCrone on national identity and nationalism.
DAVID MCCRONE is Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Institute of Governance at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He coordinated the research programme on Constitutional Change and National Identity funded by The Leverhulme Trust (1999-2005).