Smith Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives

Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-479-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

Reihe: New Ethnographies

A unique ethnographic study of Party political activismExploring 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Alexander:
Alexander Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of HuddersfieldAlexander Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield