The evolution of devolution: Labour's home rule strategy in opposition

Government and Opposition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 479-496

  Mitchell, James ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032347524     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00463.x     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
2. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
3. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
4. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
5. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
6. Paul Brass, 'Ethnicity and Nationality Formation', Ethnicity, 3:3 (1983), pp. 225-41; Walker Connor, 'The Politics of Ethnonalionalism', Journal of International Affairs, 27:1 (1977), pp. 1-21; Milton Esman, 'Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies', in Esman (ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World, London, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 371-90; Stein Rokkan and Derek Urwin, Economy, Territory, Identity: The Politics of West European Peripheries, London, Sage, 1983; Joseph Rudolph and Robert Thompson, 'Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process: Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World', Comparative Politics, 17:3 (1985), pp. 291-311; Katherine Teghtsoonian, Institutional Structure and Government Policy: Responding to Regional Nationalism in Quebec, Scotland and Wales, Stanford University PhD, USA, unpublished, 1987.
7. Michael Keating and David Bleiman, Labour and Scottish Nationalism, London, Macmillan, 1979.
8. Gordon Brown, The Labour Party and Political Change in Scotland, 1918-1929: The Politics of Five Elections, Edinburgh University PhD, unpublished, 1981.
9. Keating and Bleiman, op. cit., pp. 109-49.
10. S. Rokkan and D. Urwin, The Politics of Territorial Identity: Studies in European Regionalism, London, Sage, p. 11.
11. Glasgow Herald, 14 September 1958.
12. Hansard, House of Commons, Vol. 939, Col. 78-79.
13. Rokkan and Urwin, op. cit.
14. Vernon Bogdanor, 'The 40 Per Cent Rule', Parliamentary Affairs, 33 (1980), pp. 249-63.
15. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone, London, Macmillan, 1995.
16. Jack Geekie and Roger Levy, 'Devolution and the Tartanisation of the Labour Party', Parliamentary Affairs, 42:3 (1989), pp. 399-411.
17. Scotsman, 28 July 1982.
18. Bob McLean, Labour and Scottish Home Rule, Part 2, Whitburn, Scottish Labour Action, nd, p. 40.
19. Scotsman, 6 July 1983.
20. These were George Foulkes, John Maxton, Dennis Canavan, and John Home Robertson. David Marshall's name was added later (hand-written on author's own copy of the paper sent by one of the other MPs). The Action Plan summary was: 1) Action in Parliament - with the Scottish Whips given a specific mandate to coordinate this; demonstrative action; obstruction of Scottish Committees (packing Committees to reflect Scottish party balance); insisting that majority choose subjects for discussion etc.); initiating Scottish Grand Committee meetings (either official SGC or de facto SGC/All Party Committee of Scottish MPs) on pressing issues (e.g. steel, coal, local government, health service, housing, privatization); forcing votes; calling witnesses; extending activities in Edinburgh (including extra Scottish Question Time); 2) Encouraging local authorities and others to cite the Scottish Grand Committee as a rival of authority to the Secretary of State; 3) Urgent consultation around the country on a draft devolution bill drawn up by the Official position; 4) Establishment of working groups to examine possible action a) by local authorities; b) trade unions; c) representatives on Area Health Boards, the MSC and other quangos; d) in the courts; 5) Devolution canvass and doorstep membership campaign to begin after the Brighton Conference; 6) Follow-up national campaign highlighting the Scottish dimension in run-up to District Elections; 7) Consideration of a national plebiscite on devolution; 8) Examination of ways of linking action to local government resistance in England and Wales, other industrial resistance, CND action, and anti-government campaigns by other bodies.
21. Glasgow Herald/Scotsman, 17 September 1983.
22. McLean, Labour and Scottish Home Rule, nd, p. 40.
23. Glasgow Herald, 10 March 1986.
24. Scotsman, 9 March 1985.
25. Scotsman, 6 April 1987.
26. James Mitchell, Conservatives and the Union, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 97-113.
27. Glasgow Herald, 3 September 1987.
28. Scotsman, 31 August 1987.
29. Glasgow Herald, 10 March 1988.
30. Scotsman, 14 March 1988.
31. Glasgow Herald, 19 October, 1988.
32. Glasgow Herald, 17 November 1988.
33. Scotland on Sunday, 12 March 1989.
34. The statement read: 'We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their interests shall be paramount. We further declare and pledge that our actions and deliberations shall be directed to the following ends: To agree a scheme for an Assembly or Parliament for Scotland; To mobilise Scottish opinion and ensure the approval of the Scottish people for that scheme; and To assert the right of the Scottish people to secure the implementation of that scheme.' Declaration adopted at the inaugural meeting of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 30 March 1989.
35. BBC, On The Record, 5 March 1989.
36. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1992, Houndmills, Macmillan, 1992, p. 130.
37. It attracted little attention though the Daily Express, Financial Times and Daily Telegraph made it their lead story the following day and the Daily Mail made reference to it in a leader and it was given prominent coverage in the Scottish press.
38. Mitchell, Strategies for Self-Government, 1996, pp. 136-71.
39. Constitutional Commission, Further Steps: Towards A Scheme For Scotland's Parliament, Edinburgh, Constitutional Convention.
40. J. Mitchell, 'The Battle for Britain? Constitutional Reform and the Election', in A. Geddes and J. Tonge (eds), Labour's Landslide, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp. 134-45.
41. Scotsman, 4 April 1997.
42. Connor, op. cit., p. 21.