caa a22 4500 388061618 CHVBK 20180307125122.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00463.x doi S0017257X00004371 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00463.x Mitchell James The Evolution of Devolution: Labour‘s Home Rule Strategy in Opposition [Elektronische Daten] [James Mitchell] THE LITERATURE ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO ETHNIC or peripheral demands suggests a continuum from meeting the challenge head on to conceding some or all of the demand. Strategies also have to be developed by parties in opposition. As the dominant party in Scotland, Labour found itself embroiled in the demand for constitutional change and having to respond in the 1980s. This created party management problems. The evolution of Labour's territorial strategy in opposition between 1979 and 1997 is important in understanding what it did after coming to power. The maintenance of support for Scottish home rule, the alterations in the policy and the method of implementing it can only be explained by understanding the evolution of the policy during the party's eighteen years out of office. During this time, there was a paradigm shift in Labour thinking which made devolution more likely when it came to power. Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/4(1998-10), 479-496 0017-257X 33:4<479 1998 33 GOV https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00463.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00463.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mitchell James NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/4(1998-10), 479-496 0017-257X 33:4<479 1998 33 GOV CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge