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Author Smith, Alexander Thomas T. (Alexander Thomas Telford)

Title Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives : banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance / Alexander Thomas T. Smith.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 152 pages).
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Series New ethnographies
New ethnographies.
Summary This is a 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 politically following their annihiliation at the 1997 General Election.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Conservative Party (Scotland)
Conservative Party (Scotland)
Conservative Party (Scotland)
Decentralization in government -- Scotland.
Decentralization in government.
Scotland.
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000 - 2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Alexander Thomas T. (Alexander Thomas Telford). Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 9780719079696 (DLC) 2011283735 (OCoLC)645493132
ISBN 9781781703052 (electronic book)
1781703051 (electronic book)
9781847794802 (electronic book)
1847794807 (electronic book)
9781847794796 (electronic book)
1847794793 (electronic book)
9780719079696 (hardback)
0719079691 (hardback)

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