The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond

by David McCrone, Lindsay Paterson

The book draws on original academic research to discuss the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland, and the overwhelming endorsement of a Scottish parliament in the referendum of September 1997. It offers the most rigorous and up-to-date assessment of Scottish electoral politics that is available, setting the 1997 Scottish result in a comparative context with the rest of Britain, and in a context of changing political attitudes and behaviour since the 1970s.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

David McCrone is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He co-founded the university’s Institute of Governance in 1999, and has written extensively on the sociology and politics of Scotland, and the comparative study of nationalism.