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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SNP VOTING AND THE DEMAND FOR SCOTTISH SELF‐GOVERNMENT
Author(s) -
MILLER WILLIAM L.,
SARLVIK BO,
CREWE IVOR,
ALT JIM
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1977.tb01212.x
Subject(s) - snp , voting , politics , government (linguistics) , cleavage (geology) , political science , social psychology , psychology , biology , law , genetics , single nucleotide polymorphism , gene , genotype , philosophy , linguistics , paleontology , fracture (geology)
Evidence is presented both for and against several explanatory models of SNP electoral support. There are remarkable similarities of timing and psychology between SNP support and support for Liberals or abstention in England. Yet SNP support matches attitudes towards more self‐government. It would appear that SNP support has been caused by Britain‐wide influences breaking the constraints that formerly kept the self‐government cleavage out of party politics.