02941nam 2200637 a 450 991046517930332120200520144314.01-84779-479-31-78170-305-11-84779-480-7(CKB)2560000000085836(EBL)1069707(OCoLC)818847508(SSID)ssj0000712750(PQKBManifestationID)12329900(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712750(PQKBWorkID)10650842(PQKB)11304510(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085834(MiAaPQ)EBC1069707(OCoLC)960165141(MdBmJHUP)muse78073(Au-PeEL)EBL1069707(CaPaEBR)ebr10627227(CaONFJC)MIL843576(EXLCZ)99256000000008583620110815d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDevolution and the Scottish Conservatives[electronic resource] banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance /Alexander Thomas T. SmithManchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan20111 online resource (167 p.)New ethnographiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-9556-5 0-7190-7969-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index.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.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.New ethnographies.Decentralization in governmentScotlandScotlandPolitics and government21st centuryElectronic books.Decentralization in government320.9411Smith Alexander Thomas T(Alexander Thomas Telford)1038116MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465179303321Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives2459488UNINA