Research Catalog

Title

The Scottish National Party : transition to power / by James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie, Rob Johns.

Author

Mitchell, James, 1960-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Supplementary Content

Table of contents

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bennie, Lynn G.
• Johns, Robert, 1975-

Description

xi, 188 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The Scottish National Party is a study of the SNP immediately after it came to power in May 2007. It is based on a survey of the entire membership and elite interviews with over 80 senior party figures. Discussion is located within the appropriate literatures and comparisons drawn with other British parties. The image of the SNP as a youthful party, with a decentralized social-movement-type organization is challenged. The party is much older and much more male than had previously been thought and appears more like other conventional parties than its past image suggested. Its increased membership in recent years holds few clues as to how to re-engage youth, as even these recent joiners are predominantly older people, often former members returning to the party. The Scottish National Party questions the value of the civic-ethnic dichotomy in understanding nationalism. SNP members, it argues, acknowledge different ways --civic and ethnic, with the emphasis very much on civic--of defining who is Scottish. The picture emerges of a coherent left-of-centre party that accepts the pragmatism of its leadership. While independence remains the key motivation for joining and being active, a sizeable minority see the party as a means of furthering Scottish interests. The idea of independence is examined in elite interviews and found, again, to be understood more pragmatically than many commentators have suggested."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Scottish National Party
• Nationalism > Scotland
• Scotland > Politics and government > 21st century
• Scotland > Politics and government > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- From blackmail to governing potential -- From amateur-activist to electoral-professional party -- Who are the SNP members -- Membership motivations -- Activism in the SNP -- Nations, national identity and nationalism -- Independence, policies, and strategies -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFD 12-2521

ISBN

• 9780199580002 (hbk.)
• 0199580006 (hbk.)

OCLC

751726038

Author

Mitchell, James, 1960-

Title

The Scottish National Party : transition to power / by James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie, Rob Johns.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Added Author

Bennie, Lynn G.

Johns, Robert, 1975-

Research Call Number

JFD 12-2521