New Labour At The Centre

Author : Andrew Hindmoor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534161
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour at the Centre written by Andrew Hindmoor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting-point Anthony Downs' seminal work, An Economic Theory of Democracy, this book draws upon insights generated within economics, political psychology, and the study of rhetoric to examine the way in which New Labour achieved and maintained its electoral hegemony from 1994. Journalists and politicians routinely attribute New Labour's electoral success to its occupation of the 'centre-ground'. This book is interested in the question of how New Labour moved to the right and towards the centre. The obvious answer to this question is that New Labour moved by changing its policies. Against this, the book contends that changes in policy cannot in themselves constitute a complete explanation of changes in spatial position. They cannot do so because there is no pre-given and fixed relationship between policies and position such that the rejection of one policy and the adoption of another moves a party from one position to another. Policies are not immutably left-wing, right-wing, or centrist and so, given that the position a party is thought to occupy is a function of the policies to which it is committed, parties are not immutably left-wing, right-wing, or centrist either. The relationship between policy and position and thereby between parties and position is constructed and is in part constructed by parties themselves. New Labour did not simply move to the centre. It had to persuade the media, voters, and other parties that it had moved to the centre. New Labour achieved and maintained its electoral hegemony not simply by changing one set of policies for another. It achieved and maintained its hegemony by successfully constructing its policies as centrist.

Author : Florence Faucher-King
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762341
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Labour Experiment written by Florence Faucher-King and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour governments in Britain, when Tony Blair then Gordon Brown were Prime Ministers between 1997 and 2009. This assessment is based upon a review of implemented public policies and their outcomes instead of programmes or discourses.

Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847424988
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour, new welfare state? written by Powell, Martin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 1999-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andrew Rawnsley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141939044
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Servants of the People written by Andrew Rawnsley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-07-16 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : M. Beech
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230584373
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Years of New Labour written by M. Beech and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the Blair government from 1997-2007 conducting high quality research into aspects of British politics with particular emphasis on parties, policies and ideologies. With contributions from key figures in the field further topics include New Labour's record on social policy, defence policy, constitutional reform and public expenditure.

Author : S. Griffiths
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230248551
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour written by S. Griffiths and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour brings together academics and politicians to debate the intellectual roots of the ideas that currently drive the main UK political parties. With major players responding to the arguments raised in each chapter, the book will be a must-read for anyone interested in or teaching British politics.

Author : Richard Little
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059629
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour's Foreign Policy written by Richard Little and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 May 1997, the foreign secretary, Robin Cook, launched a mission statement for New Labour's foreign policy. This essay asks whether New Labour have re-orientated the path of foreign policy from that established by the Conservatives.

Author : R. Heffernan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598439
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour and Thatcherism written by R. Heffernan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour's 1997 victory was widely credited to the party's reinvention of itself as New Labour. This book argues that the transformation of the Labour Party is best understood as the product of Thatcherism, and marks the emergence of a new consensus in British politics.

Author : Andrew Rawnsley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141969709
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Party written by Andrew Rawnsley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling book lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office, with riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; and entertaining portraits of the main players as Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour as well as the astonishing feuds and reconciliations between Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson. This paperback edition contains two revealing new chapters on the extraordinary events surrounding the 2010 General Election and its aftermath.

Author : Patrick Diamond
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845407970
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour's Old Roots written by Patrick Diamond and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.