Politics and the People

Scotland, 1945-1979

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Malcolm Petrie, University of St Andrews) Petrie, Malcolm (Lecturer in Late Modern Scottish history _x000D_

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This book reappraises Scottish politics in the decades after 1945, augmenting existing accounts of this period by foregrounding the importance of ideology and language. Founded upon original archival research, the book recovers the central role played within modern Scottish politics by an individualist, anti-bureaucratic critique of central government. Deployed initially by those on the political right to attack the programme of nationalisation implemented by the post-war Labour government, by the 1960s this rhetoric was being exploited by advocates of constitutional change. As liberty came to be framed in constitutional rather than economic terms, understandings of political representation also changed: crucially, the arrival of the referendum in British politics granted credibility to the belief that there existed a distinctive Scottish tradition of popular sovereignty.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-18
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor218
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474456982
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Saltire Society Awards: Research 2023 (UK)

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Malcolm Petrie is Lecturer in Late Modern Scottish History at the University of St Andrews, and the Co-investigator of the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network that inspired this edited collection. He has written widely on Scottish politics in the twentieth century, and is the author of Popular Politics and Political Culture: Urban Scotland, 1918-1939 (EUP, 2018). His most recent book, Politics and the People (EUP, 2022), examines political culture and national identity in post-war Scotland.

Introduction: Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Constitution: Scotland, 1945-1979Chapter One: Unionism, Liberalism and Anti-Socialism: Politics in Scotland after 1945Chapter Two: Too Complex, Too Remote? Scottish Politics in the 1960sChapter Three: Combatting Centralisation: Europe, Local Government, and the Rise of the SNP, 1967-1975Chapter Four: Letting the People in? Direct Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in post-war ScotlandConclusion: 1979 and afterBibliography