Politics and the People

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

Petrie's book will be an essential reference point for all scholars of post-war Scotland. It presents a sophisticated revisionist account of the key conflicts and orientations that reshaped the political landscape.