British Party Politics and Ideology After New Labour

British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour provides the most comprehensive analysis of contemporary party political ideology in Britain to date, with chapters written by distinguished authors. It begins by debating the Blair legacy and asks if there was a decisive ideological shift away from Thatcherism following the landslide election victory in 1997. It then goes on to examine the major ideological controversies in the three main parties. The idea of the third way is evaluated and current concerns with equality and national identity are discussed in relation to the Labour Party. An assessment of David Cameron's modernization project is conducted in the section on the Conservatives. Recent debates on constitutional reform and the proper relationship between the market and the state are considered in the section on the Liberal Democrats. Finally the book discusses a number of broader issues including the future of public services and the role of social justice in the decades ahead.

ISBN 0230220762   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780230220768 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 469 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Height (mm) 224 Publication date 18 Nov 2009   Width (mm) 145 DEWEY 324.241   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface by David Owen
		Introduction by Kevin Hickson and Simon Griffiths		1
Pt. I		Did Blair Advance Social Democracy?		9
Pt. II		Labour after Blair		37
Pt. III		The Conservatives under Cameron		105
Pt. IV		Where Now for the Liberal Democrats?		153
Pt. V		Cross-Party Debates		193
		Notes		228
		Index		261

'It is a worthy attempt...to link the conventional empirical study of partisan politics with deeper issues of political theory.' Financial Times

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