Conservatives and the Union : a study of Conservative Party attitudes to Scotland
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Conservatives and the Union : a study of Conservative Party attitudes to Scotland
Edinburgh University Press, c1990
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 143-156
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Conservative Party has never been as unpopular in Scotland as it is today. By tracing the history and ideology of Conservatism in Scotland this new study helps to explain the Party's current weakness. It begins with an analysis of the Party's dominant role in developing its opposition to Scottish Home rule up to the mid-1960s and describes Edward Heath's brief flirtation with devolution in the late 1960s. The SNP challenge of the 1970s and the Conservative Party's persistent opposition to legislative devolution throughout the Labour Government are covered. Finally, the book moves up-to-date, looking at the increasing unpopularity of the Party in the 1980s and analyzing why Thatcherism has been unable to extend into a Scotland suffering from a supposed debilitating "dependency culture".
Table of Contents
- Conflicts within conservatism in Scotland
- Conservatives and Scottish administration
- Unionist Party opposition to Scottish home rule
- the adoption of legislative devolution
- Conservatives in opposition 1974-79
- the Scotland Act and referendum
- institutional and economic problems during the Thatcher years
- from dependency to enterprise.
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