Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 152 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0719079691
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1847794793
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1847794807
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1781703051
,
9780719079696
,
9781847794796
,
9781847794802
,
9781781703052
Serie:
New ethnographies
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780719079696
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0719079691
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 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
Sprache:
Englisch
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