Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134381611
This book, written by a distinguished selection of academics and commentators, provides the most detailed comparison yet of old and new Labour in power.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415312813
This book, written by a distinguished selection of academics and commentators, provides the most detailed comparison yet of old and new Labour in power. I
Author : Andrew Rawnsley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2001-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0141939044
'Downing Street is said to be 'furious' at this book - and it is easy to understand why. It is the first meticulous chronicle of all that has happened since that bright May Day three years ago which first brought the Blair government to office' Anthony Howard, Sunday Times
Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134381603
We are constantly told that New Labour forms an historic departure from the traditions of the Labour Party. This book, written by a distinguished selection of academics and commentators, provides the most detailed comparison yet of old and new Labour in power. It is also the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of the last Labour Government before the rise of Thatcher and the re-emergence of the Labour Party under Tony Blair's leadership. It reveals much about the history of the Labour Party as well as providing a much-needed context from which to judge the current government.
Author : Patrick Diamond
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845407962
The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as an antidote to that amnesia. It is an 'all star cast' from R.H. Tawney, Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland to Roy Hattersley, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The collection demonstrates that Labour's revisionism is not a rigid body of doctrine but a 'cast of mind' that distinguishes between core values (ends) and policy instruments (means) — revisionist thinkers are engaged in the continuous pursuit of policy innovation, never shrinking from abandoning policies that fail to achieve the desired ends. All successful Labour governments have been determined to avoid the confusion of means and ends. These essays show a determination throughout the party's history to debate and discuss political ideas in the cause of a fairer, more equal society. Fully updated and revised edition.
Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1407051555
Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.
Author : James E. Cronin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317873912
Where other books are either highly partisan dismissals or appreciations of the Third Way, or dull sociological accounts, this book gets behind the clichés in order to show just what is left of Labour party ideology and what the future may hold. New Labour has changed the face of Britain. Culture, class, education, health, the arts, leisure, the economy have all seen seismic shifts since the 1997 election that raised Blair to power. The Labour that rules has distanced itself from the failed Labour of the 70s and 80s, but the core remains. Labour remains gripped by its own past - unable and unwilling to shed its ties to the old Labour party, but determined to avoid the mistakes of which lead to four electoral defeats between 1979 and 1992. Cronin covers the full history of the party from its post war triumph through decades of shambolic leadership against ruthless and organised opposition to the resurgent New Labour of the 90s that finally took Britain into the new millennium.
Author : O. Daddow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230307310
A major review of New Labour's foreign policy from leading experts. This book re-imagines policy thinking, away from Churchill's idea of Britain as at the intersection of 'three circles' (the English speaking world, Europe, and the Commonwealth) and towards a new conceptual model that takes into account identity, ethics and power.
Author : Stephen Driver
Publisher : Polity
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745620510
Fully revised and expanded second edition of this well-respected and successful textbook Provides a critical analysis of New Labour ideology and policy-making Offers a comprehensive audit of eight years of Labour in power Includes new chapters on New Labour and British social democracy; public service reform; European and foreign policy
Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 1999-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847424988
The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right. New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour; compares and contrasts current policy areas with both the Old Left and the New Right and applies the concept of the 'third way' to individual policy areas and to broader themes which cut across policy areas. The contributors provide a comprehensive account of developments in the main policy areas and in the themes of citizenship and accountability, placing these within a wider framework of the 'third way'. They find a complex picture. Although the exact shape of the new welfare state is difficult to detect, it is clear that there have been major changes in areas such as citizenship, the mixed economy of welfare, the centrality of work in an active welfare state, and the appearance of new elements such as joined up government at the centre and new partnerships of governance at the periphery. New Labour, new welfare state? provides topical information on the debate on the future of the welfare state and is essential reading for students and researchers in social policy, politics and sociology.
