Lynn Bennie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Bennie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennie |
| SIGNATURE | BENNIE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0270-6053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Voices from the edge make breakthrough in British politics: The Greens, Reform UK, and independents
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like campaign. Using data from a 2016–17 survey of the parties’ memberships, we examine why large numbers joined these pro-independence parties following defeat in the referendum. We demonstrate that th…
Labour party adaptation to multilevel politics: Evidence from British general election manifestos
Parties, mandates and multilevel politics: Subnational variation in British general election manifestos
The three main statewide British parties – Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats – all produce different versions of their manifestos in British general elections. Many policies debated in a British general election no longer apply at the subnational level, where separate devolved institutions control large areas of policy. This article therefore assesses the roles of national party manifestos at the subnational level in British general ele…
Obituary: Professor Grant Jordan
The Australian Greens: From activism to Australia’s third party
Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male support for the SNP. While popular accounts have focused on…
Electoral Reform and Party Adaptation: The Introduction of the Single Transferable Vote in Scotland
The 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections saw the first large scale use of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in a mainland election in Britain. This presented a range of challenges for Scotland's political parties, more familiar with campaigning under first‐past‐the‐post or the Scottish parliament's semi‐proportional Additional Member System (AMS). Most crucially, STV meant the parties had to come to terms with multi‐member wards and the tran…
Strategic Actors or Muddling Through? Political Parties, Local Campaigning and the Single Transferable Vote1
Through a study of local party adaptation to the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in the 2007 Scottish local government election, this article asks whether party organisations can be strategic, vote‐maximising actors when a new electoral system is introduced. By examining candidate and ‘vote management’ strategies, the article demonstrates that local parties tended to adapt best in areas of organisational and electoral strength.…
The Transformation of Local Politics? STV and the 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections
This article considers the impact of introducing STV for Scottish Local Government elections. The new electoral system has had a significant effect in terms of extending the principles of coalition politics, thereby presenting opportunities for all parties. Parties now work within the context of multi‐party agreements in order to run Scotland's 32 councils. The myriad of party configurations or ‘coalitions’ to emerge from these STV elections stan…
The Logic of Transnational Action: The Good Corporation and the Global Compact
This article examines corporate participation in the UN Global Compact programme. Using data on the world's 2,000 largest companies, we address the question of why companies voluntarily assume the programme's responsibilities and promote the rights of ‘global citizenship’. Our analytic approach is to view transnational corporate political behaviour as a result of firm-level decisions shaped by country-level variation in political audience effects…
Transition to Stv: Scottish Local Government Elections 2007
A form of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) will be introduced for Scottish local government elections in May 2007, bringing the total number of electoral systems used in Scotland to four. The article outlines the key characteristics of the new system, and considers the implications of these changes. The introduction of STV will undoubtedly produce a more proportional distribution of seats among the main parties, and there will be a reduction in…
Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002
(2003). Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 134-155
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Harbingers of new politics? The characteristics and attitudes of candidates in the Scottish parliament elections, 1999
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization: The selection of labour party candidates for the 1999 Scottish parliament and welsh assembly elections
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
Devolution and party change: Candidate selection for the 1999 Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly elections
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace
Journal Article Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace Get access LYNN G. BENNIE LYNN G. BENNIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 397–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028805 Published: 01 July 1998
Up and down with the Greens
Devolution and party change: Candidate selection for the 1999 Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly elections
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male support for the SNP. While popular accounts have focused on…
The Logic of Transnational Action: The Good Corporation and the Global Compact
This article examines corporate participation in the UN Global Compact programme. Using data on the world's 2,000 largest companies, we address the question of why companies voluntarily assume the programme's responsibilities and promote the rights of ‘global citizenship’. Our analytic approach is to view transnational corporate political behaviour as a result of firm-level decisions shaped by country-level variation in political audience effects…
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like campaign. Using data from a 2016–17 survey of the parties’ memberships, we examine why large numbers joined these pro-independence parties following defeat in the referendum. We demonstrate that th…
Parties, mandates and multilevel politics: Subnational variation in British general election manifestos
The three main statewide British parties – Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats – all produce different versions of their manifestos in British general elections. Many policies debated in a British general election no longer apply at the subnational level, where separate devolved institutions control large areas of policy. This article therefore assesses the roles of national party manifestos at the subnational level in British general ele…
Electoral Reform and Party Adaptation: The Introduction of the Single Transferable Vote in Scotland
The 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections saw the first large scale use of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in a mainland election in Britain. This presented a range of challenges for Scotland's political parties, more familiar with campaigning under first‐past‐the‐post or the Scottish parliament's semi‐proportional Additional Member System (AMS). Most crucially, STV meant the parties had to come to terms with multi‐member wards and the tran…
Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002
(2003). Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 134-155
Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace
Journal Article Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace Get access LYNN G. BENNIE LYNN G. BENNIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 397–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028805 Published: 01 July 1998
Up and down with the Greens
Strategic Actors or Muddling Through? Political Parties, Local Campaigning and the Single Transferable Vote1
Through a study of local party adaptation to the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in the 2007 Scottish local government election, this article asks whether party organisations can be strategic, vote‐maximising actors when a new electoral system is introduced. By examining candidate and ‘vote management’ strategies, the article demonstrates that local parties tended to adapt best in areas of organisational and electoral strength.…
Transition to Stv: Scottish Local Government Elections 2007
A form of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) will be introduced for Scottish local government elections in May 2007, bringing the total number of electoral systems used in Scotland to four. The article outlines the key characteristics of the new system, and considers the implications of these changes. The introduction of STV will undoubtedly produce a more proportional distribution of seats among the main parties, and there will be a reduction in…
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization: The selection of labour party candidates for the 1999 Scottish parliament and welsh assembly elections
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
Labour party adaptation to multilevel politics: Evidence from British general election manifestos
The Transformation of Local Politics? STV and the 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections
This article considers the impact of introducing STV for Scottish Local Government elections. The new electoral system has had a significant effect in terms of extending the principles of coalition politics, thereby presenting opportunities for all parties. Parties now work within the context of multi‐party agreements in order to run Scotland's 32 councils. The myriad of party configurations or ‘coalitions’ to emerge from these STV elections stan…
The Australian Greens: From activism to Australia’s third party
Up and down with the Greens
Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace
Journal Article Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil and Greenpeace Get access LYNN G. BENNIE LYNN G. BENNIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 397–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028805 Published: 01 July 1998
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization: The selection of labour party candidates for the 1999 Scottish parliament and welsh assembly elections
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
Devolution and party change: Candidate selection for the 1999 Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly elections
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
Reference Section
Harbingers of new politics? The characteristics and attitudes of candidates in the Scottish parliament elections, 1999
Reference Section
Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002
(2003). Towards moderate pluralism: Scotland's post‐devolution party system, 1999–2002. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 134-155
Transition to Stv: Scottish Local Government Elections 2007
A form of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) will be introduced for Scottish local government elections in May 2007, bringing the total number of electoral systems used in Scotland to four. The article outlines the key characteristics of the new system, and considers the implications of these changes. The introduction of STV will undoubtedly produce a more proportional distribution of seats among the main parties, and there will be a reduction in…
The Logic of Transnational Action: The Good Corporation and the Global Compact
This article examines corporate participation in the UN Global Compact programme. Using data on the world's 2,000 largest companies, we address the question of why companies voluntarily assume the programme's responsibilities and promote the rights of ‘global citizenship’. Our analytic approach is to view transnational corporate political behaviour as a result of firm-level decisions shaped by country-level variation in political audience effects…
Electoral Reform and Party Adaptation: The Introduction of the Single Transferable Vote in Scotland
The 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections saw the first large scale use of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in a mainland election in Britain. This presented a range of challenges for Scotland's political parties, more familiar with campaigning under first‐past‐the‐post or the Scottish parliament's semi‐proportional Additional Member System (AMS). Most crucially, STV meant the parties had to come to terms with multi‐member wards and the tran…
Strategic Actors or Muddling Through? Political Parties, Local Campaigning and the Single Transferable Vote1
Through a study of local party adaptation to the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in the 2007 Scottish local government election, this article asks whether party organisations can be strategic, vote‐maximising actors when a new electoral system is introduced. By examining candidate and ‘vote management’ strategies, the article demonstrates that local parties tended to adapt best in areas of organisational and electoral strength.…
The Transformation of Local Politics? STV and the 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections
This article considers the impact of introducing STV for Scottish Local Government elections. The new electoral system has had a significant effect in terms of extending the principles of coalition politics, thereby presenting opportunities for all parties. Parties now work within the context of multi‐party agreements in order to run Scotland's 32 councils. The myriad of party configurations or ‘coalitions’ to emerge from these STV elections stan…
Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male support for the SNP. While popular accounts have focused on…
The Australian Greens: From activism to Australia’s third party
Parties, mandates and multilevel politics: Subnational variation in British general election manifestos
The three main statewide British parties – Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats – all produce different versions of their manifestos in British general elections. Many policies debated in a British general election no longer apply at the subnational level, where separate devolved institutions control large areas of policy. This article therefore assesses the roles of national party manifestos at the subnational level in British general ele…
Obituary: Professor Grant Jordan
Labour party adaptation to multilevel politics: Evidence from British general election manifestos
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges
Some political parties have experienced a resurgence in membership. This article seeks to explain membership surges in the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens following the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and an unusually movement-like campaign. Using data from a 2016–17 survey of the parties’ memberships, we examine why large numbers joined these pro-independence parties following defeat in the referendum. We demonstrate that th…
Voices from the edge make breakthrough in British politics: The Greens, Reform UK, and independents
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