The New Labour Reader

by Chadwick, Andrew; Heffernan, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780745629445
• ISBN10: 074562944X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-14
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

The New Labour Reader draws together in one accessible volume a set of authoritative interpretations and accounts of New Labour in government, including key commentaries on the contemporary Labour Party and the Blair government. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, the book maps out and explains New Labour's political trajectory, the policy agenda it has pursued and the process by which it governs. It uses excerpts from the best and most interesting material, including the writings and speeches of the Labour government's most influential figures. There are chapters on the New Labour debate, economic policy, the public services, constitutional reform, European policy and Labour's Whitehall style, as well as a critical introduction by the editors. This Reader will provide an initial point of access to the varied literature on this subject and prove an essential reference for understanding the wide-ranging implications of the New Labour 'project'. Since British politics is a core option on all undergraduate politics courses, it will be a vital resource for all who study the subject. Visit www.polity.co.uk/newlabour for articles and updates which support the book.

Author Biography

Andrew Chadwick is a Lecturer in Political Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include Augmenting Democracy: Political Movements and Constitutional Reform During The Rise of Labour, and he has published a number of articles in several scholarly journals


Richard Heffernan is a Lecturer in Government and Politics at The Open University. His publications include New Labour and Thatcherism: Political Change in Britain, The Labour Party: A Centenary History (edited with Brian Brivati), and Defeat From the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party (with Mike Marqusee).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	x
Publisher's Note	xiv
Introduction: The New Labour Phenomenon	1	(25)
Part I The New Labour Debate	26	(64)
The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century	28	(6)
Tony Blair
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy	34	(5)
Anthony Giddens
The Land that Labour Forgot	39	(4)
Philip Gould
The Ideology of New Labour	43	(6)
Michael Freeden
New Labour and Thatcherism	49	(10)
Richard Heffernan
The Political Economy of New Labour:	59	(7)
Colin Hay
Interpreting New Labour: Constraints, Dilemmas and Political Agency	66	(11)
Michael Kenny
Martin J. Smith
The Blair Paradox	77	(5)
David Marquand
The Great Moving Nowhere Show	82	(6)
Stuart Hall
Corporate Populism and Partyless Democracy	88	(2)
Anthony Barnett
Part II Prudent for a Purpose? New Labour's Economic Policy	90	(39)
Safety First: The Making of New Labour	92	(6)
Paul Anderson
Nyta Mann
Labour's Business Manifesto: Equipping Britain for the Future	98	(3)
`Prudence will be our Watchword': Chancellor's Speech at the Mansion House, 1998	101	(4)
Gordon Brown
Open Macroeconomics in an Open Economy	105	(5)
Edward Balls
Europe: The Third Way/Die Neue Mitte	110	(6)
Tony Blair
Gerhard Schroder
New Keynesianism and New Labour	116	(4)
Will Hutton
President's Speech to the TUC Congress, September 2001	120	(2)
Bill Morris
Did Things Get Better? An Audit of Labour's Successes and Failures	122	(7)
Polly Toynbee
David Walker
Part III Realizing Citizenship? Labour and Public Services	129	(44)
The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century	131	(3)
Tony Blair
Equality -- Then and Now	134	(3)
Gordon Brown
The Third Way Begins with CORA	137	(2)
Julian Le Grand
Government Must Reconsider its Strategy for More Equal Society	139	(1)
Ruth Lister
Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal	140	(4)
Excellence in Schools	144	(5)
The New NHS: Modern, Dependable	149	(6)
How Big Money is Stitching Up the NHS	155	(4)
Will Hutton
New Labour: Politics after Thatcherism	159	(8)
Stephen Driver
Luke Martell
From Welfare State to Post-Welfare Society? Labour's Social Policy in Historical and Contemporary Perspective	167	(6)
Nick Ellison
Part IV Modernizing the United Kingdom? Labour's Constitutional Agenda	173	(50)
Modernising Government	175	(6)
Foreword to Scotland's Parliament	181	(1)
Donald Dewar
Human Rights Act 1998	182	(9)
A Mayor and Assembly for London	191	(5)
The Jenkins Commission Report on the Voting System	196	(6)
Jenkins Commission
Response to the Jenkins Commission Report	202	(5)
Jack Straw
The House of Lords: Completing the Reform	207	(8)
The Nature of the British--Irish Agreement	215	(8)
Brendan O'Leary
Part V Britain in the World, Labour in the European Union	223	(44)
From Hostility to `Constructive Engagement': The Europeanisation of the Labour Party	225	(6)
Philip Daniels
New Labour -- New Europe?	231	(6)
Kirsty Hughes
Edward Smith
Speech at the Launch of the Britain in Europe Campaign, October 1999	237	(2)
Tony Blair
Europe -- Superpower, not Superstate: Speech in Warsaw, October 2000	239	(4)
Tony Blair
Speech at the Mansion House, June 2001	243	(5)
Gordon Brown
Statement on European Monetary Union to the House of Commons, October 1997	248	(5)
Gordon Brown
The Blair Government and Europe	253	(6)
Philip Stephens
Britain in the World: Speech to The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, January 2000	259	(4)
Robin Cook
The Doctrine of the International Community, April 1999	263	(4)
Tony Blair
Part VI A New Whitehall Style? New Labour in Government	267	(55)
Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour	270	(2)
Andrew Rawnsley
The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership	272	(7)
Michael Foley
Tony Blair as Prime Minister	279	(7)
Peter Hennessy
The Powers behind the Prime Minister	286	(5)
Dennis Kavanagh
Anthony Seldon
Tony Blair	291	(7)
John Rentoul
Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Political Spin	298	(6)
Ivor Gaber
The Hand of History: New Labour, News Management and Governance	304	(5)
Bob Franklin
Sultans of Spin: The Media and the New Labour Government	309	(4)
Nicholas Jones
The Electronic Face of Government in the Internet Age	313	(5)
Andrew Chadwick
The Commons: Mr Blair's Lapdog?	318	(4)
Philip Cowley
Index	322