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Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland / Murray Stewart Leith, Daniel P. J. Soule.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748637362
  • 9780748647118
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Whose Nationalism is it Anyway? -- 2 The Politics of Contemporary Scottish Nationalism -- 3 The Changing Sense of Scotland: the Political Employment of National Identity -- 4 Nationalism’s Metaphor: the Discourse and Grammar of National Personification -- 5 Mass Perceptions of National Identity: Evidence from Survey Data -- 6 Narratives of Identity: Locating National Identity in the Public’s Discourse -- 7 The Scottish Political Elite View of National Identity -- 8 (Re)describing Scottish National Identity -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index
Summary: Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in ScotlandMurray 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.Key FeaturesPresents a detailed consideration of the language used within the political and nationalist arena in ScotlandCompares a variety of attitudes and opinions held within Scotland from the political elite to the massesIntroduces a new method for measuring political nationalism using manifesto analysis
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Whose Nationalism is it Anyway? -- 2 The Politics of Contemporary Scottish Nationalism -- 3 The Changing Sense of Scotland: the Political Employment of National Identity -- 4 Nationalism’s Metaphor: the Discourse and Grammar of National Personification -- 5 Mass Perceptions of National Identity: Evidence from Survey Data -- 6 Narratives of Identity: Locating National Identity in the Public’s Discourse -- 7 The Scottish Political Elite View of National Identity -- 8 (Re)describing Scottish National Identity -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index

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Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in ScotlandMurray 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.Key FeaturesPresents a detailed consideration of the language used within the political and nationalist arena in ScotlandCompares a variety of attitudes and opinions held within Scotland from the political elite to the massesIntroduces a new method for measuring political nationalism using manifesto analysis

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In English.

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