The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond
Brown, Alice, McCrone, Professor David, Paterson, Lindsay, Surridge, Paula
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Description for The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond
Hardcover. This text discusses the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland and the likely future shape of Scotland's politics. It sets the 1997 Scottish result in a comparative context with the rest of Britain, and in a context of changing political attitudes and behaviour since the 1970s. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 433.
The book draws on original academic research to discuss the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland and the likely future shape of Scotland's politics. It offers the most rigorous and up-to-date assessment of Scottish electoral politics that is available, setting the 1997 Scottish result in a comparative context with the rest of Britain, and in a context of changing political attitudes and behaviour since the 1970s. The 1997 General Election ranks alongside 1945 and 1979 as a turning point in the post-war United Kingdom. The overwhelming endorsement of a Scottish Parliament in the September 1997 referendum will have ... Read more
The book draws on original academic research to discuss the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland and the likely future shape of Scotland's politics. It offers the most rigorous and up-to-date assessment of Scottish electoral politics that is available, setting the 1997 Scottish result in a comparative context with the rest of Britain, and in a context of changing political attitudes and behaviour since the 1970s. The 1997 General Election ranks alongside 1945 and 1979 as a turning point in the post-war United Kingdom. The overwhelming endorsement of a Scottish Parliament in the September 1997 referendum will have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333725252
SKU
V9780333725252
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99-15
About Brown, Alice, McCrone, Professor David, Paterson, Lindsay, Surridge, Paula
ALICE BROWN is in the Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh, and has published widely on Scottish politics and on women in politics and society. DAVID MCCRONE is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and convenor of the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland. He has published extensively on the sociology, culture and politics of ... Read more
Reviews for The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond
'The Scottish Electorate is a fascinating and authoritative study of Scottish politics in the momentous year that saw the near elimination of conservative Scotland and the decisive steps taken to establish the first Scottish Parliament for three centuries. As the first election to that Parliament draws ever closer, this snapshot of the electorate in its most recent times of decision ... Read more