The Strange Death of Labour Scotland / / Gerry Hassan, Eric Shaw.

Analyses the rise and fall of Labour in Scotland and asks: is Labour's decline irreversible? After being the leading party in Scotland for 50 years, Labour was shocked to lose an election and office to the SNP in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections, and thunderstruck when the SNP won a ma...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t List of Tables --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Introduction: The Strange Death of ‘Labour Scotland’ --   |t Part One. The Context of Scottish Labour: The Opposition Years --   |t 2. Fighting for What Really Matters: The Politics of Scottish Labour 1979–87 --   |t 3. ‘What Do You Do When Democracy Fails You?’ – ‘The Scottish Dimension’ and Thatcherism --   |t 4. Northern Discomfort: Scottish Labour, New Labour and the Coming of Blair --   |t Part Two. The Context of Scottish Labour: Devolution Days --   |t 5. The High Tide of New Labour, New Scotland --   |t 6. Scottish Labour and ‘the Early Days of a Better Nation’ --   |t 7. The Politics of Stability and the Slow Demise of New Labour --   |t 8. A Different Political Landscape: Scottish Labour in a Cold Climate --   |t Part Three. Scottish Labour in Power --   |t 9. How Distinctive is Scottish Labour? The Cases of Education and Health --   |t 10. Ideology, Institutions and the Programmatic Trajectory of Scottish Labour --   |t 11. The Paradox of Free Personal Care for the Elderly --   |t Part Four. Dynamics of Scottish Labour --   |t 12. Still the People’s Party? Scottish Voting Behaviour and the Scottish Party System --   |t 13. The Evolution of Scottish Labour --   |t 14. The Internal Politics of Scottish Labour --   |t 15. Power and Policy-making --   |t 16. Power in the Scottish Labour Party: The Case of Candidate Selection --   |t 17. The Territorial Dimensions of Labour --   |t Conclusion: The Forward March of Scottish Labour Halted? --   |t References --   |t Index 
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