Wright, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-673X (2024) Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era. British Politics. ISSN 1746-918X
Abstract
This article presents an original account of the strategic options available to political parties in the form of the position, salience and rhetoric framework. It builds upon existing accounts of party competition by conceiving of rhetorical justification as a distinct tool in the armoury of party strategists alongside the manipulation of policy position and issue salience. It applies that framework to the case of post-devolution Scotland via a quantitative text analysis of the written record of First Ministers Questions sessions in the Scottish Parliament. It shows how the main political parties in Scotland between them utilised all of the strategic tools contained within the PSR framework in the early twenty-first century up to the most recent 2021 election to the Holyrood parliament. It argues that the tactical choices the main Scottish parties made within this framework can help explain the differing electoral fortunes experienced by those parties in the post-devolution era.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Party competition; Scotland; Devolution; Rhetoric |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2024 07:34 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2024 07:34 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s41293-024-00257-2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213016 |