Diamond, Patrick / Kenny, Michael (eds.) Reassessing New Labour Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown Political Quarterly Special Issues
1. Edition October 2011 23.90 Euro 2011. 220 Pages, Softcover ISBN 978-1-4443-5134-7 - John Wiley & Sons
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Short description The Political Quarterly's Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown is an authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour. Since the election there have been numerous ideologically-inspired accounts of where it all went wrong; as yet there has been little insightful engagement with the complex history of New Labour. As a result key lessons have yet to be learned, and the central dilemma of whether the strategic assumptions that informed the centre-left's modernising project in the mid-1990s are relevant now, has not been confronted. This book aims to fill that void.
From the contents Notes on Contributors
Preface: James Purnell
Introduction: Reviewing New Labour in Government: Progressive Dilemmas?: Patrick Diamond and Mike Kenny
Section 1 1. New Labour and Inequality: Paul Gregg 2. Solidarity Lost? Labour and the Politics of the Welfare State: Tim Horton 3. Reappraising New Labour's Political Economy: John Denham
Section 2 4. An Era of Constitutional Reform: Vernon Bogdanor 5. Rebuilding the Bonds of Trust and Confidence? Labour's Constitutional Reform Programme: John Curtice 6. New Labour and the Distribution of Power: Constitutional Reform, Human Rights and Civil Liberties: Francesca Klug 7. Localism under New Labour: Guy Lodge and Rick Muir
Section 3 8. Labour's Record on the Economy: Kitty Ussher 9. Labour and the Economy, 1997-2010: More than a Faustian Pact: Dan Corry 10. New Labour and the Politics of Ownership: Stuart White
Section 4 11. The Death of Class-based Politics: Peter Kellner 12. Back to Class: Lessons for the Labour Party: Alan Finlayson 13. Why did Labour's Public Sector Reforms Fail to Transform Communities?: Jessica Asato
Section 5 14. Shirley Williams in Conversation with Tony Wright 15. The New Labour Government's Place in History: Brian Brivati 16. Afterword: Future Directions for Labour: Patrick Diamond and Mike Kenny
