Alexander Smith

Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives (eBook, ePUB)

Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique ethnographic study of Party political activism exploring 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797469
• Artikelnr.: 44044688

Autorenporträt

Alexander Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield

Inhaltsangabe

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 of self-knowledge 7. Counting on Failure:
Polling Day and its aftermath 8. Return of the lesser-spotted Tory