Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance
- ISBN 13:
9780719095566
- ISBN 10:
0719095565
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/31/2014
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary
This book ethnographically describes the processes, practices and relationships that Tory Party activists sought to enact during the 2003 Scottish and local Government elections. Its central argument is that, having asserted that the difficulties they faced constituted problems of knowledge, Conservative activists cast to the geographical and institutional margins of Scotland became 'banal' activists. Believing themselves to be lacking in the data and information necessary for successful mobilisation during Parliamentary elections, local Tory Party strategists attempted to address their knowledge 'crisis' by burying themselves in paperwork and petty bureaucracy. Such practices have often escaped scholarly attention because they appear everyday and mundane and are therefore less noticeable.