Synopses & Reviews
Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in Scotland. Murray Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule explore the importance of groups, concepts and events such as the SNP and devolution, unionism, the political elite, political and public discourse, inclusion and exclusion, enforced nationalism, and birth, race and citizenship to nationalist feeling in Scotland. The authors set the Modernist view of Scottish nationalism against the work of Gellner, Anderson and Billig to create their own 'mixed method' of evaluating nationalism.
Synopsis
This book addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective. Applying an ethnically based approach, it balances this with a consideration of the discourse of nationalism. This allows for a consideration of both the theoretical nature of nationalism and national identity in Scotland and the nature of its expression and maintenance.
Synopsis
Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.
Synopsis
Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.
Murray Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule compile a variety of attitudes and opinions from the political elite to the masses, examining the nature of national identity held by members of these groups and the differences within and between them. There is consideration of non-civic aspects of national identity, as well as a measure of political party nationalism in Scotland over the past forty years that illustrates the ideological movements of each major party during this period.This work also represents the first comprehensive examination of the discourse involved in the expression of national identity within Scottish politics and society, combining quantitative and discourse analysis methods to illustrate the articulation of national identity by differing groups in different contexts.
Key Features:
- Presents a detailed consideration of the language used within the political and nationalist arena in Scotland
- Compares a variety of attitudes and opinions held within Scotland from the political elite to the masses
- Introduces a new method for measuring political nationalism using manifesto analysis
About the Author
Murray Stewart Leith is Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland Daniel P. J. Soule is Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Glasgow Caledonian University Daniel P. J. Soule is Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Glasgow Caledonian University