Uk Devolution and Constituency Association Adaptation in Scotland and Wales

Koop, Royce

doi:10.1080/00344893.2011.550464

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“…Historically, the political parties literature was 'affected by a national bias' (Fabre and Swenden 2013: 342) and/or was wedded to a 'single-level language' (Deschouwer 2006:213); that is to say, it did not widely take into account the multi-level aspect of political party organisation. Yet, operating across multiple-levels of government and multiple party systems, state-wide parties 'are intrinsically multi-level' (Libbrecht et al 2013: 627 -emphasis added), a reality captured in recent conceptualisations such as the 'multi-level party' (Moon and Bratberg 2010), 'franchise parties' (Carty 2004) and analyses focused on the 'stratarchical' nature of intra-party relations (Koop 2011).…”

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Labouring under a delusion? Scotland’s national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party

Bennett

Moon

Pearce

et al. 2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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In recent years, the Scottish Labour Party has lost its once dominant position in Scottish politics. Its support has collapsed and it now faces multiple political challenges, relating both to cleavages in Scottish politics over the constitution and Brexit, and to divisions within the party over its leadership and direction. Employing semi-structured elite interviews with key figures within the party hierarchy and focus groups with grassroots activists, this article examines the causes of this crisis through an analysis of party members' views. It identifies sources of the decline of Scottish Labour in unresolved disagreements over strategy and identity. Unable to coalesce around a distinctly Scottish strategy for competing in a multi-dimensional, multi-level political space with both civic nationalist challengers and conservative defenders of the constitutional status quo, in 2017, Scottish Labour reasserted a classbased identity, seeking to compete largely on the left-right economic dimension of politics. Instead of marking out a Scottish political identity, the Scottish Labour Party chose leftward national alignment with the Corbyn leadership of the UK Labour Party. The electoral and political failure of this strategy offers important lessons for understanding the prospects of multi-level social-democratic parties.

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