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Scottish National Party Representations of Scottishness and Scotland
Politics, 2008This article examines the representations of Scottishness and Scotland expressed within the Scottish National party (SNP) manifestos issued for British general elections from 1970 to 2005. It illustrates that while Scotland has remained a constant, Scottishness has been transformed from being somewhat ethnic and occasionally exclusive to being now ...
Murray Stewart Leith
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The Scottish National Party and Organizational Democratization
2013This chapter will present a case study on one changing organization in the English-speaking world: the Scottish National Party (SNP), which has existed since 1934. The SNP is a centre-left party which campaigns for Scottish independence. It has held power in Scotland since 2007, when it became a government party for the first time in its history after ...
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From Social Democracy Back to No Ideology?—The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-Level Electoral Setting [PDF]
Regional and Federal Studies, 2009 This article examines the development of ideology in the Scottish National Party since its formation in 1934, focusing on the recent period of the party’s history.
Peter Lynch
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2020
AbstractThe SNP has moved from the fringes of Scottish politics to being a strikingly successful electoral force, keeping the constitutional status of Scotland at the top of the political agenda. In the twenty-first century, the SNP has been a long-term party of government but one of opposition in the UK, balancing the different facets of its identity ...
Lynn Bennie, Craig McAngus
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AbstractThe SNP has moved from the fringes of Scottish politics to being a strikingly successful electoral force, keeping the constitutional status of Scotland at the top of the political agenda. In the twenty-first century, the SNP has been a long-term party of government but one of opposition in the UK, balancing the different facets of its identity ...
Lynn Bennie, Craig McAngus
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Recent Developments in the Scottish National Party
The Political Quarterly, 1988Since it s establishment, the major tension in the Scottish National Party has been between its fundamentalist and gradualist wings. The former identifies with the 'independence-nothing less' position and is wary of the party becoming too closely associated with a position on the left-right ideological axis.
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2001
In the First World War, Scotland lost 110 000 men, over 20 per cent of Britain’s war dead.1 The absence of the promised ‘home fit for heroes’ fuelled radicalism both north and south of the Border; and the apparent possibility of the replication of Dublin in 1916 in Scotland inflamed unrealistic fears in some British politicians, most famously in the ...
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In the First World War, Scotland lost 110 000 men, over 20 per cent of Britain’s war dead.1 The absence of the promised ‘home fit for heroes’ fuelled radicalism both north and south of the Border; and the apparent possibility of the replication of Dublin in 1916 in Scotland inflamed unrealistic fears in some British politicians, most famously in the ...
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1979
Increasing electoral support in recent years for the Scottish National Party (SNP) had created a major challenge, not only to the main UK parties operating in Scotland, but also to the legitimacy of the United Kingdom. Why, in an advanced industrial society, apparently with a long established and legitimated system of government, a nationalist party ...
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Increasing electoral support in recent years for the Scottish National Party (SNP) had created a major challenge, not only to the main UK parties operating in Scotland, but also to the legitimacy of the United Kingdom. Why, in an advanced industrial society, apparently with a long established and legitimated system of government, a nationalist party ...
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Rhetoric and the Rise of the Scottish National Party
2017The electoral success of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in recent years owes much to its rhetoric. Whatever its ideological origins, the SNP currently espouses an ill-defined form of social democracy, and is thus properly understood as a party of the centre-left.
Mark Garnett, Martin Steven
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The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power
Regional & Federal Studies, 2014With the election of a majority Scottish National Party (SNP) government in 2011, the path has been paved for a national referendum on Scottish independence.
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The Scottish Labour Party and ‘Crypto-Nationalism’
2020Having supported Home Rule for Scotland in the 1920s, by the 1950s the Labour Party in Scotland had abandoned legislative devolution while retaining the sort of nationalist unionist rhetoric once deployed by the Scottish Unionist Party between the 1930s and 1950s.
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