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The strange death of labour in Scotland /
Analyses the rise and fall of Labour in Scotland and asks: is Labour's decline irreversible? After being the leading party in Scotland for 50 years, Labour was shocked to lose an election and office to the SNP in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections, and thunderstruck when the SNP won a ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2012.
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- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; The Strange Death of 'Labour Scotland'; Chapter 1 The 'Myth' of 'Labour Scotland'; Chapter 2 Fighting For What Really Matters: The Politics of Scottish Labour 1979-87; Chapter 3 'What Do You Do When Democracy Fails You?'
- 'The Scottish Dimension' and Thatcherism; Chapter 4 Northern Discomfort: Scottish Labour, New Labour and the Coming of Blair; Chapter 5 The High Tide of New Labour, New Scotland; Chapter 6 Scottish Labour and 'the Early Days of a Better Nation'; Chapter 7 The Politics of Stability and the Slow Demise of New Labour.
- Chapter 8 A Different Political Landscape: Scottish Labour in a Cold ClimateChapter 9 How Distinctive is Scottish Labour? The Cases of Education and Health; Chapter 10 Ideology, Institutions and the Programmatic Trajectory of Scottish Labour; Chapter 11 The Paradox of Free Personal Care for the Elderly; Chapter 12 Still the People's Party? Scottish Voting Behaviour and the Scottish Party System; Chapter 13 The Evolution of Scottish Labour; Chapter 14 The Internal Politics of Scottish Labour; Chapter 15 Power and Policy-making.
- Chapter 16 Power in the Scottish Labour Party: The Case of Candidate SelectionChapter 17 The Territorial Dimensions of Labour; Conclusion The Forward March of Scottish Labour Halted?; References; Index.