Devolution and Scottish Cons CB: Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance

by Alexander Smith

Book Overview

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 politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719079691
• ISBN13: 9780719079696
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"