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Table of contents

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Acknowledgements

Part I Theory and context

1 When and why do political parties change?

What drives party change?

Leadership change

Change in dominant faction: factions at both levels

Electoral defeat

Electoral competition

Public opinion

How do parties change?

Organisation and sub-state organisational autonomy

Personnel

Policy

Examining party change

2 The UK Conservative Party: statewide context

Conservatism, unionism and statecraft

1997 to Hague

Duncan Smith

Howard

Cameron, ‘Cameronism’ and territorial politics

Conclusion

Note

Part II Scotland and Wales

3 Devolution, party change and the Scottish Conservative Party

History of the Scottish Conservative Party

Explaining Scottish Conservative decline

Drivers of party change for the Scottish Conservatives

External shocks: devolution and the 2014 referendum

Change in dominant faction or leadership

From the 1980s to 2011: dormant factions?

The 2011 Scottish Conservative leadership election

Impact of UK factionalism on the Scottish Conservatives

Electoral defeat

Political opportunity structure

Manifestations of party change

Party organisation

The Reforms of the Strathclyde Commission (1998)

Sanderson Commission (2010)

Territorial organisational autonomy

Leadership selection

Candidate selection

Policy-making

Finance

Personnel

Policy

The making of pre-devolution Scottish Conservative Party policy

The Rifkind policy commission

Post-devolution Scottish Conservative Party policy-making

1999 manifesto

2003 manifesto

2007 manifesto

2007–2011: policy relevance for the Scottish Conservatives

2011 manifesto

The referendum and the second Strathclyde Commission

Conclusion

Notes

4 Devolution, party change and the Welsh Conservative Party

Introduction

History of the Welsh Conservative Party

The Welsh nation and administrative devolution

The Conservative Party and the Welsh nation

The evolution of devolution in Wales, 1997–2011

Drivers of party change for the Welsh Conservatives

Devolution as an external shock

Change in dominant faction or leadership

Pre-1997 factions in the Welsh Conservative Party

Transition from Richards to Bourne

Electoral defeat

Political opportunity structure

Manifestations of party change

Party organisation

The creation of a Welsh Conservative Party?

Territorial organisational autonomy

Leadership selection

Candidate selection

Policy-making autonomy

Finance

Personnel

Policy

1999 manifesto

2003 manifesto

The 2007 manifesto: towards coalition

The Rainbow Coalition and the All-Wales Accord

2011 and future policy-making

Welshification and the nationalist card

Conclusion

Notes

5 Comparing party change in Scotland and Wales

Introduction

Devolution and party organisational change

Devolution and sub-state party autonomy

Leadership selection

Candidate selection

Policy autonomy

Finance

Leadership and faction change

Constitutional changes, electoral defeat and (further) organisational change in Scotland and Wales

A tale of two parties? Institutions, ideas and people in Scotland and Wales

Sub-state party change

Conclusion: the construction of problems

Note

Part III Conclusion

Devolution, party politics and conservatism

A tale of two parties

Losing an empire, finding a goal

The Conservative Party

The drivers of party change

Party change and multi-level politics

Statewide parties and decentralisation

Notes

References

Index