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Autore |
Smith Alexander Thomas T (Alexander Thomas Telford) |
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Titolo |
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives [[electronic resource] ] : banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance / / Alexander Thomas T. Smith |
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Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-746-6 |
1-84779-479-3 |
1-78170-305-1 |
1-84779-480-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (167 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Ethnographies |
New ethnographies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Decentralization in government - Scotland |
Scotland Politics and government 21st century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 of self-knowledge; 7. Counting on failure: Polling Day and its aftermath; 8. Return of the lesser-spotted Tory; Afterword; Bibliography; Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1990's attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. |
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