Comparative Territorial Politics

1 total work

More Scottish than British

by Christopher Carman, Robert Johns, and J Mitchell

Published 1 January 2014

Using official statistics, this book explores how the SNP managed to confound expectations and win a parliamentary majority in the 2011 Scottish General Election. Perhaps surprisingly, it was not constitutional politics or the return of the Conservatives to power in Westminster but domestic issues that decided the vote in the SNP's favour.