Description
Book SynopsisA unique ethnographic study of Party political activism exploring 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 -- .
Trade Review... Smith's work demonstrates the continued importance of social class in Scottish politics. -- .
Table of Contents1. 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
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