Regionalist Parties, Economic Development and Regional Government: The SNP in Government 2007-9

Peter Lynch ^[1]
1. [1] University of Stirling
  
  University of Stirling
  
  Reino Unido
Localización: Repensar la democracia: inclusión y diversidad : IX Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración: celebrado en Málaga 23, 24 y 25 de septiembre de 2009 / Juan Luis Paniagua Soto (dir. congr.), 2009
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Keating, Loughlin and Deschouwer (2003) identified 4 ideal type models of regional economic development – low cost growth, bourgeois regionalism, social democracy and nationbuilding. These ideal types will be used to assess the goals and performance of the Scottish National Party in regional government since 2007. The SNP entered minority government with the support of the Green Party in May 2007 and is reliant upon temporary alliances with statewide parties to pass its legislation and budgets. The paper will examine the SNP government‟s attempts at nationbuilding using the limited economic powers available to the Scottish government and how the party has sought to link economics to its autonomy goal in a period of economic growth and then recession. The paper will argue that the party has used economic policy as a policy tool to prepare for independence as well as a symbolic tool to demonstrate the weakness of the Scottish economy that can only be fixed with fiscal autonomy and/or independence.