Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444351346 ISBN 13: 9781444351347

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

An authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour.

• The first book-length retrospective assessment of New Labour in government which ranges across academic commentary and political debate
• Features brand-new essays from political figures associated with the Labour party, senior commentators and leading academics, all reflecting upon key policy areas and themes in relation to the New Labour administrations
• Includes a Foreword from Baron Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party; an edited conversation regarding the prospects for social democracy between Baroness Shirley Williams, leading Lib Dem politician, and Tony Wright (former Labour MP); and fresh evaluations of the Labour government’s record and failings from the Shadow Minister John Denham MP
• Raises highly topical and important questions about the purpose and future of the Labour Party, and is designed to stimulate debate about the political challenges facing the centre-left in Britain

About this title

From the Back Cover

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. It embraces thinkers and commentators from across the progressive and liberal centre-left including Baroness Shirley Williams, John Denham MP, Vernon Bogdanor, John Curtice, Dan Corry, Tim Horton, Paul Gregg, Kitty Ussher, Guy Lodge and Alan Finlayson. The collection is a foretaste of the realigned, plural politics that Labour will need to create if it is to challenge the Coalition Government four years from now.

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. 

 

About the Author

Patrick Diamond is a Doctoral Student at Sheffield University, Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Patrick is also an elected member of Southwark Council.  He was previously Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Patrick has spent ten years as a Special Adviser in various roles at the heart of British Government, including No.10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where he served as Group Director of Strategy.  

Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely in the fields of political thought, British politics and public policy. In 2010 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos think-tanks. He is currently writing a book on the politics of English nationhood.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444351346
• ISBN 13: 9781444351347
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Diamond Patrick, Kenny Michael