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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. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note to international readers; 1. Banal activism; 2. A Tory-free Scotland; 3. Dispelling Doonhamers:naming and the numbers game; 4. Making (a) difference:building the political machine; 5. The politics of irrelevance; 6. Disaggregating the secret ballot:electioneering and the politics ofself-knowledge; 7. Counting on failure:Polling Day and its aftermath; 8. Return of the lesser-spotted Tory; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.