Abstract
Students of new political movements and electoral sociology have paid limited attention to local and regional variations in levels of support. This reflects a tendency to view social structures as ‘national’ and monolithic and to ignore the historical process through which political identities emerge from the contexts provided by local territorial-cultural settings, In this paper electoral data are used as the basis for geographical analysis of support for the Scottish National Party. Although this political party claims a nationwide mandate in Scotland, preliminary analysis suggests a distinctive pattern of support within the country that can be explained by the evolution of place-related political identities.
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