Political traditions and Scottish devolution

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/1020 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/1020 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/1020 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/04/29 2009-12-09 12:11:39 2019-01-23 09:52:08 2011-07-19 16:17:15 thesis show 0 Hall Matthew Philip mph@wsfc.ac.uk Marsh David 1946- Kerr Peter 1962- University of Birmingham Political traditions and Scottish devolution unpub JN101 JN1187 JA 10col_socs British Political Tradition, Scottish devolution, Bevir and Rhodes This thesis seeks to develop a conception of the political traditions operating in the UK and then apply it to the development of Scottish Devolution. I argue that the concept of tradition has been under-valued and theorized in social science and that the notion of political traditions has heuristic value when applied to British politics. Discussion of a distinctive British Political Tradition has been kept to the margins in explanations of the British political system with only a few authors seeking to explore the ideational underpinnings of the institutions and process of British government and the Westminster Model. The recent work of Bevir and Rhodes has raised the profile of political traditions, however I contend that their conceptualization is flawed and thus, heuristically limited. I argue that we can identify a dominant political tradition, the British Political Tradition, which has decisively influenced the nature and conduct of British political life over time. This tradition expresses and facilitates the ideas and interests of dominant socio-economic groups in UK society. However it has not gone uncontested. We can also identify the existence of competing political traditions which challenge aspects or the entirety of, the British Political Tradition. Although competing political traditions resonate asymmetrically, it is through the process of conflict and contestation that changes in the British political system can be explained. From this I then narrate the history of Scottish Devolution to date and offer comment on how this interactive and iterative process continues to inform outcomes since 1999. Overall I argue that the dominant political tradition continues to have a major impact on the British political system. 2009-12 2009-04 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 322 University of Birmingham Department of Political Science and International Studies d_ph FALSE na 2009-12 graduation