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245 0 0 _aRuth Davidson's Conservatives :
_bthe Scottish Tory Party, 2011-19 /
_cedited by David Torrance.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2020.
300 _ax, 216 pages :
_billustrations
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aRuth Davidson's Conservatives', 2011-19 / David Torrance -- Tory revival in Scotland? Recent evidence, future prospects / Mark Diffley -- 'We' in Scotland or 'she' in Scotland? Scottish Conservative manifesto discourse during the Davidson era / Murray Stewart Leith -- 'Standing up for Scotland' at Westminster? / Paris Gourtsoyannis -- The Scottish Conservatives and local government / Lauren Toner, Chrysa Lamprinakou and Neil McGarvey -- 'A lesbian with family values' : gender and sexuality in Ruth Davidson's leadership of the contemporary Scottish Conservative Party / Jennifer Thomson -- Riding the unionist wave : Ruth Davidson, the media and the re-emergence of the Scottish Conservatives / David Patrick -- The Conservative 'territorial code' under strain / Richard Hayton -- The Scottish Conservative Party and the three unionisms / Alan Convery -- Scottish Conservatism and Northern Ireland : Mapping an ambivalent relationship / Jonathan Evershed -- The Scottish Conservatives and Europe : The reluctant Brexit party / Anthony Salamone -- A tale of two nationalisms : Scottish nationalism and unionism in the age of disruption / Gerry Hassan.
520 _a"Examining the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson's leadership. Key features: First book to examine the recent revival of the Scottish Conservative Party. Analyses the Scottish Conservative Party and Ruth Davidson's leadership in ground-breaking ways, for example in the context of gender and LGBT politics; its relationships with the SNP, Northern Ireland, the Scottish media and the UK Tory Party; its use of Scottish national identity in promoting itself electorally. Complements and updates David Torrance's 2012 edited volume for Edinburgh University Press on the decline of the party, Whatever Happened to Tory Scotland? Helps inform Scottish political and academic discourse ahead of the 2021 Holyrood elections. When Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, it was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and apparently beyond the point of no return. But by 2017, 'Ruth Davidson's Conservatives' had become Scotland's second party at Holyrood and Westminster, and its leader spoken of as a future leader of the UK Conservative Party, if not the next Scottish First Minister. This book, which brings together leading academics and analysts, examines the extraordinary revival of the Scottish Conservative Party between 2011 and Ruth Davidson's shock resignation in 2019. Contributors look at the importance of gender and sexuality, the 2014 independence referendum, the Scottish media and the UK Conservative Party's 'territorial code' to the changing fortunes of the party and its leader, asking if it can be sustained amid the turbulence of two ongoing constitutional debates"--
_cProvided by publisher
600 1 0 _aDavidson, Ruth,
_cBaroness Davidson of Lundin Links,
_d1978-
_9119741
_esubject.
610 2 0 _aConservative Party (Scotland)
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_aHome rule
_zScotland.
651 0 _aScotland
_xPolitics and government
_918761
_y21st century.
700 1 _aTorrance, David,
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