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Notes
Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party (Cardiff, Welsh Academic Press, 2002), p. 157.
In the 2015 general election, the SNP managed an unbelievable feat, winning all but three Scottish seats in the British Parliament on 50% of the Scottish vote.
Tom Nairn, The Break-up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-nationalism (London, New Left Books, 1977).
James Mitchell, “From breakthrough to mainstream: the politics of potential and blackmail”, in Gerry Hassan (ed.), The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2009), p. 35.
Ibid., respectively p. 123 (“From boom to bust: 1971-1979” is actually the title of the chapter devoted to the 1970s) and p. 142.
Before 1967, the SNP had only won one seat, at the Motherwell by-election of April 1945, in highly unusual political circumstances: the major parties having agreed to a truce for the duration of the war, the SNP had been the only party to compete for the seat against Labour, which had held the seat until then. In the event, the SNP had lost the seat a few months later, at the post-war general election organised in the same year.
Rob Johns and John Mitchell, Takeover. Explaining the Extraordinary Rise of the SNP (London, Biteback Publishing, 2016), p. 6.
Peter Lynch, op. cit., p. 118.
Ibid., p. 124.
See for instance Nathalie Duclos, La dévolution des pouvoirs à l’Ecosse et au pays de Galles, 1966-1999 (Nantes, Editions du Temps, 2007).
Tam Dalyell, The Question of Scotland. Devolution and After (Edinburgh, Birlinn, 2016), p. 34.
Alan Sked & Chris Cook, Post-War Britain (London, Penguin, 1993), p. 279.
W. A. Roger Mullin, “The Scottish National Party”, in H. M. Drucker (ed.), Multi-Party Britain (London & Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1979), p. 123.
Peter Lynch, op. cit., p. 131.
James Mitchell, op. cit., p. 31.
I. G. C. Hutchison, Scottish Politics in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001), p. 100.
It “made 110 gains, 11 losses and won three local authorities from Labour” (Peter Lynch, op. cit., p. 149).
Ibid.
See Denis Van Mechelen, unpublished PhD dissertation (LSE), “The Growth in Third Party Support in Britain”, 1982, as referenced in Donley T. Studlar & Ian McAllister, “Nationalism in Scotland and Wales: a Post-Industrial Phenomenon?”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 11:1 (January 1988), p. 59.
Roger Levy, Scottish Nationalism at the Crossroads (Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1990), p. 20.
Ibid.
Alan Sked & Chris Cook, op. cit., p. 277.
I. G. C. Hutchison, op. cit., p. 120.
Ibid., p. 325.
Jack Brand, James Mitchell & Paula Surridge, “Social Constituency and Ideological Profile: Scottish Nationalism in the 1990s”, Political Studies 42:4 (December 1994), p. 622.
Ian McAllister, “Party Organization and Minority Nationalism: a Comparative Study in the United Kingdom”, European Journal of Political Research 9 (1981), p. 240.
Jack Brand, Duncan McLean and William Miller, “The Birth and Death of a Three-Party System: Scotland in the Seventies”, British Journal of Political Science 13 (1983), p. 464.
Roger Levy, op. cit., p. 23.
James Mitchell, op. cit., p. 35.
Ibid.
See Ronald Inglehart, The Silent Revolution. Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1977).
Donley T. Studlar & Ian McAllister, op. cit., p. 59.
Jack Brand, James Mitchell & Paula Surridge, op. cit., p. 617.
Ibid.
Quoted in Gordon Brown, “Introduction: the Socialist Challenge”, in Gordon Brown (ed.), The Red Paper on Scotland (Edinburgh, EUSPB, 1975), p. 16.
Mark V. Kauppi, “The Decline of the Scottish National Party, 1977-81: Political and Organizational Factors”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 5:3 (July 1982), p. 326.
Jack Brand, James Mitchell & Paula Surridge, op. cit., pp. 627-28.
Mark V. Kauppi, op. cit., p. 327.
Roger Levy, op. cit., p. 24.
Ewen A. Cameron, Impaled upon a Thistle : Scotland since 1880 (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010), p. 292.
See for instance Peter Lynch, op. cit., p. 123.
Gordon Wilson, SNP: The Turbulent Years 1960-1990 (Stirling, Scots Independent, 2009), p. 87.
Peter Lynch, op. cit., p. 120.
Tam Dalyell, op. cit., p. 20.
Ibid., p. 7.
The first major oil finds in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland were the Montrose field, in 1969, and the Forties field, in 1970.
Christopher Harvie, Scotland. A Short History (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014), p. 208.
Another catchy slogan was “Rich Scots or Poor Britons?”.
Roger Levy, op. cit., p. 35.
Gordon Wilson, op. cit., p 87.
Milton J. Esman, “Scottish nationalism, North Sea oil and the British response” (Waverley Papers, Occasional Paper 6, Series 1, April 1975), pp. 38-39.
Neither can the rise of Scottish nationalism be attributed to “a sudden spread of nationalist sentiment” as “national feeling is a permanent feature of Scottish culture” (Keith Webb, The Growth of Nationalism in Scotland [London, Pelican Books, 1978], p. 102). In other words, it wasn't the case that Scottish people suddenly started feeling Scottish, as that had always been true.
Though George Robertson was speaking of the devolution scheme of the 1990s, not that of the 1970s.
SNP, SNP & You. Aims and Policy of the Scottish National Party (Scottish National Party, 1974, 4th edition), p. 5.
SNP (Hamilton branch), flyer to join the SNP, February 1974.
Resolution 48, SNP's annual Conference, 29 May 1976, ibid., p. 72.
George Reid, House of Commons debates, Hansard, 14 December 1976, vol. 922, cols. 1354-1355.
Donald Steward, House of Commons debates, Hansard, 22 February 1978, vol. 944, col. 1489.
See Jack Brand, Duncan McLean and William Miller, op. cit.
See Mark V. Kauppi, op. cit. and Ian McAllister, op. cit.
Gordon Wilson, op. cit., p. 72.
Keith Webb, op. cit., p. 106.
James Mitchell, “From national identity to nationalism, 1945-1999”, in H. T. Dickinson and Michael Lynch (eds), The Challenge to Westminster. Sovereignty, Devolution and Independence (East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000), p. 158.
Gordon Brown, op. cit., p. 16.
I. G. C. Hutchison, op. cit., p. 121.
Ewen Cameron, op. cit., p. 292.
Ibid., pp. 123-124.
This was a rule according to which the threshold for devolution to be validated was not just 50% of voters (as is the case in most referendums), but 40% of the total registered electorate; this was of course a higher hurdle due to many people abstaining.
Gordon Wilson, op. cit., p. 198.
Roger Levy, op. cit., p. 75.
William Miller, Jack Brand and Maggie Jordan, “Oil and the Scottish Voter, 1974-79” (North Sea Oil Panel Occasional Paper No.2, Social Science Research Council, 1980), pp. 4-5.
Mark V. Kauppi, p. 232.
Roger Levy, op. cit., p. 14.
R. A. Houston and W. W. J. Knox (eds), The New Penguin History of Scotland (London, Penguin, 2001), p. 486.
Murray Stewart Leith and Martin Steven, “Party Over Policy? Scottish Nationalism and the Politics of Independence”, Political Quarterly 81:2 (April-June 2010), p. 263.
Northern Ireland had always had a different party system from the rest of the UK.
I. G. C. Hutchison, op. cit., p. 138.
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