The New Social Democracy

by Gamble, Andrew; Wright, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780631217657
• ISBN10: 0631217657
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Since the election of Tony Blair to the leadership of the Labour party in 1997 and the party's subsequent electoral triumph in 1997 after eighteen years in opposition there has been intense speculation about what the Labour party now stands for. Does the party still have a clear set of values and beliefs which guide it in government? Can it still be described as a social democratic party? Recently Tony Blair has called his political approach a Third Way between new Right and old Labour. The essays in this book by leading authorities on social democracy and the politics of new Labour ask whether new Labour is a complete break with the Labour past and with European social democracy, or whether it should be seen as a powerful restatement of social democratic ideas in a new context.

Author Biography

Tony Wright is MP for Cannock Chase and joint editor of The Political Quarterly.

Andrew Gamble is Director of the Political Economy Research Centre joint editor of The Political Quarterly. Previous books include Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty and The Free Economy and the Strong State.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction: The New Social Democracy	1	(9)
Andrew Gamble
Tony Wright
Premature Obsequies: Social Democracy Comes in From the Cold	10	(9)
David Marquand
European Social Democracy and New Labour: Unity in Diversity?	19	(18)
Donald Sassoon
European Social Democracy: Convergence, Divisions, and Shared Questions	37	(16)
Frank Vandenbroucke
Ownership and Social Democracy	53	(16)
Gerald Holtham
The Parabola of Working Class Politics	69	(15)
Colin Crouch
Globalisation and Social Democracy	84	(13)
Paul Hirst
New Keynesianism and New Labour	97	(6)
Will Hutton
A Response to Will Hutton	103	(2)
Ruth Kelly
Environmental Democracy	105	(12)
Michael Jacobs
The Helmsman and the Cattle Prod	117	(14)
Anna Coote
Social Democracy in a Small Country: Political Leadership or Management Consultancy?	131	(11)
James McCormick
Graham Leicester
New Approaches to the Welfare State	142	(9)
Julian Le Grand
True Blood or False Genealogy: New Labour and British Social Democratic Thought	151	(15)
Michael Freeden
`Rights and Responsibilities': A Social Democratic Perspective	166	(15)
Stuart White
Index	181