Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance
This highly readable book, is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as party political activism more generally. Available in paperback for the first time, it explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for the Scottish Tories - to describe how senior Conservatives worked from the assumption that they had endured their own 'crisis' in representation. The ma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-9556-6
- EAN: 9780719095566
- Produktnummer: 16092464
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 166 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.9 cm 263 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 263
Über den Autor
Alexander Smith is an Assistant Professor and Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow in Sociology at Warwick University as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Sociology at Kansas University
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