The Modernisation Of The Labour Party 1979 97

Author : Christopher Massey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526144441
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979–97 written by Christopher Massey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour's years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997. The monograph uniquely traces the party's major organisational changes across its eighteen years of opposition. Labour's organisational modernisation in this period fundamentally altered the party's internal structures, policy-making pathways and constitution. The study begins with an investigation into the scene inherited by Labour's leadership in the early 1980s and examines Neil Kinnock's quest for a stable majority on the party's ruling National Executive Committee between 1983 and 1987. From this position the monograph surveys the major organisational changes of the Labour Party in their period of opposition: the Policy Review (1987-92), One Member, One Vote (1992-94), Clause IV (1995-96) and Partnership in Power (1996-97). Through a re-examination of Labour's modernisation, in the light of new source material and extensive primary interviews, this research significantly contributes to the understanding of the rise of New Labour.

Author : Christopher Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526144423
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97 written by Christopher Massey and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives.

Author : Patrick Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781315745466
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019 written by Patrick Diamond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a novel account of the Labour party's years in opposition and power since 1979, in particular examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour's sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Forty years on from the 1979 disaster, however, Labour finds itself on the edge of oblivion once again. Defeated in 2010, it entered a further cycle of degeneration and decline. Like social democratic parties across Europe, it failed to identify a fresh ideological rationale in the aftermath of the great financial crisis. Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews and unpublished papers, the book focuses on decisive points of transformational change in the party's development and raises a perennial concern of present-day debate, namely whether Labour is a party capable of transforming the ideological weather, shaping a new paradigm in British politics, or whether it is a party that should be content to govern with parameters set by its Conservative opponents. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British Politics, political parties, British political party history, Labour Party history and contemporary history"--

Author : R. Heffernan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598439
Total Pages : 250 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 250 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 : R. Hill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502954
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labour Party's Economic Strategy, 1979-1997 written by R. Hill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers Labour's economic strategy as it developed through the party's long period of opposition between 1979 and 1997. This history argues strongly that accounts of Labour's recent past which claim that the Party was driven by a combination of Thatcherism and opinion polls are flawed. It offers an alternative account which stresses the importance of debates within and around the Party about how the economy should be understood, the role of markets and the state, and British industrial decline.

Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847420398
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernising the Welfare State written by Powell, Martin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the third in Martin Powell's New Labour trilogy, analyses the legacy of Tony Blair's government for social policy, focusing on the extent to which it has changed the UK welfare state.

Author : H.F. Pimlott
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004503439
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90 written by H.F. Pimlott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars of Position analyses the UK left’s most public periodical under Thatcherism: Marxism Today. It connects the periodical’s political-ideological and cultural transformation via its relationship with the Communist Party, production, distribution, publicity, media relations, cultural coverage, design, and writing style.

Author : Andrew McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098625
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Britain written by Andrew McDonald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.

Author : Lindsay Aqui
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526145219
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The first referendum written by Lindsay Aqui and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the United Kingdom’s entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from ‘hope to uncertainty’. When Edward Heath lost the 1974 General Election, Harold Wilson returned to No. 10 promising a fundamental renegotiation and referendum on EC membership. By the end of the first year of membership, 67% of voters had said ‘yes’ to Europe in the UK’s first-ever national referendum. Examining the relationship between diplomacy and domestic debate, this book explores the continuities between the European policies pursued by Heath and Wilson in this period. Despite the majority vote in favour of maintaining membership, Lindsay Aqui argues that this majority was underpinned by a degree of uncertainty and that ultimately, neither Heath nor Wilson managed to transform the UK’s relationship with the EC in the ways they had hoped possible.

Author : Manfred B. Steger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609765
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction written by Manfred B. Steger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South. At the dawn of the new century, however, neoliberalism has been discredited as the global economy, built on its principles, has been shaken to its core by a financial calamity not seen since the dark years of the 1930s. So is neoliberalism doomed or will it regain its former glory? Will reform-minded G-20 leaders embark on a genuine new course or try to claw their way back to the neoliberal glory days of the Roaring Nineties? Is there a viable alternative to neoliberalism? Exploring the origins, core claims, and considerable variations of neoliberalism, this Very Short Introduction offers a concise and accessible introduction to one of the most debated 'isms' of our time. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.