03388nam 2200805 a 450 991079191880332120200520144314.01-84779-746-61-84779-479-31-78170-305-11-84779-480-710.7765/9781847794796(CKB)2560000000085836(EBL)1069707(OCoLC)818847508(SSID)ssj0000712750(PQKBManifestationID)12329900(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712750(PQKBWorkID)10650842(PQKB)11304510(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085834(OCoLC)960165141(MdBmJHUP)muse78073(Au-PeEL)EBL1069707(CaPaEBR)ebr10627227(CaONFJC)MIL843576(MiAaPQ)EBC1069707(DE-B1597)660963(DE-B1597)9781847794796(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 EthnographiesNew 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 centuryConservative Party.Conservatives.Scotland.Scottish Parliament.Tories.bureaucracy.devolution.elections.party-political activism.politics.Decentralization in government320.9411Smith Alexander Thomas T(Alexander Thomas Telford)1519005MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791918803321Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives3756869UNINA