Nationalism in Scotland and wales: A post‐industrial phenomenon?

Modern democratic experiences of territorial management: Single houses, but many mansions

“…Beginning in the 1960s a re-emergence of vocal minority nationalism in the Western world challenged these assumptions, generating a literature which documented in some detail a richly diverse world of ethnonational populations and the extent of the related political activity and organization (see, for example, Stephens, 1976;Blaschke, 1980; also Rokkan and Urwin, 1983). Paralleling such classification exercises was a Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 15:26 18 November 2014 proliferation of conceptual approaches which sought to explain the greater visibility and salience of Western minority nationalism variously in terms of the expression and/or consequence of ethnic resurgence (Ra'anan, 1980), internal colonialism (Hechter, 1975), peripheral politicization (Rokkan and Urwin, 1983), perceived relative deprivation (Beer, 1980), geographically differentiated politico-economic modernization and ethnic potential (Gourevich, 1979), uneven economic development (Nairn, 1977), and even post-industrialism (Studlar and McAllister, 1988) -to name but some of the arguments deployed. 3 In short, the conclusion had to be that the nation-state, even in its purported spiritual home, was largely a myth.…”

An analysis of inter‐party behaviour in the house of commons: Scots MPs and post‐materialism

“…Studlar and McAllister align with conceptualising the SNP as a parliamentary arm of post-materialist movements such as the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly (CSA). 3 Though others have studied Scottish parties (the SNP, Labour, Liberals, and so on), 4 and Scottish electoral behaviour, 5 this research note focuses on a relatively under-developed area of British political studies; that is, Scots inter-party activity at Westminster. The study of legislative behaviour in Britain needs more work in the area of inter-party analysis and parties' legislative behaviour.…”