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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 ...
Nathalie Duclos
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Labouring under a delusion? Scotland’s national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party [PDF]
Territory, Politics, Governance, 2021 n recent years, the Scottish Labour Party has lost its once dominant position in Scottish politics. Its support has collapsed, and it now faces multiple political challenges, relating both to cleavages in Scottish politics over the constitution and ...
Stuart Bennett +2 more
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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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Nations and Nationalism, 2015 The article sets out to examine the complexity of national identity and to provide a more nuanced understanding of how inclusive and exclusive characteristics of national identity, which appear theoretically contradictory but show empirically ...
Arno Van Der Zwet
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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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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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Modelling national identity in the Scottish National Party and Frisian National Party
, 2013 The article sets out to explore the complexity of national identity and to provide a more nuanced understanding of how inclusive and exclusive characteristics of national identity, which appear theoretically contradictory, show empirically considerable ...
Van Der Zwet, Arno
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Review: The History of the Scottish National Party
Scottish Affairs, 2003Party histories understandably tend to dwell on time spent in government. After all, power is what politics is all about. This poses an obvious problem for a history of the SNP, as the pinnacle of the party's executive power has been a brief and ignominious stint running Tayside regional council.
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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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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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