British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Kevin Hickson, Simon Griffiths

      Pages 1-7

3. Did Blair Advance Social Democracy?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Alan Finlayson

      • Simon Griffiths, Kevin Hickson

      Pages 11-17

   3. Dennis Kavanagh

      • Simon Griffiths, Kevin Hickson

      Pages 18-23

   4. Jonathan Tonge

      • Simon Griffiths, Kevin Hickson

      Pages 24-29

   5. Response

      • Alan Finlayson

      Pages 30-31

   6. Response

      • Dennis Kavanagh

      Pages 32-33

   7. Response

      • Jonathan Tonge

      Pages 34-35

4. Labour after Blair

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Assessing the Impact of the Third Way

      • Judi Atkins

      Pages 39-52

   3. What Makes Progressive Ideology? Lessons from the Third Way

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 53-66

   4. Response to Atkins and Leggett

      • Anthony (Lord) Giddens

      Pages 67-69

   5. New Labour, New Liberalism and Revisionism’s Second Wave

      • Simon Griffiths

      Pages 70-84

   6. Response to Simon Griffiths

      • Roy (Lord) Hattersley

      Pages 85-86

   7. Gordon Brown, ‘Britishness’ and the Negation of England

      • Simon Lee

      Pages 87-101

   8. Response to Simon Lee

      • Arthur Aughey

      Pages 102-103

5. The Conservatives under Cameron

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Built on Sand? Ideology and Conservative Modernisation under David Cameron

      • Mark Garnett

      Pages 107-118

   3. Cameron, Modernisation and Conservative Britain

      • Philip Lynch

      Pages 119-134

British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour brings together academics and politicians to debate the intellectual roots of the ideas that currently drive the main UK political parties. With major players responding to the arguments raised in each chapter, the book will be a must-read for anyone interested in or teaching British politics.

• British politics
• party politics
• political ideology
• Tony Blair
• David Cameron
• Labour Party
• Liberal Democrats
• Conservative Party
• constitution
• democracy
• Policy
• Political Parties
• politics
• social justice

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

• University of London, UK

  Simon Griffiths

• University of Liverpool, UK

  Kevin Hickson

SIMON GRIFFITHS is Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy Policy Centre. He has written widely on UK politics and public policy.

KEVIN HICKSON is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK and has written and edited seven books and several journal articles on the subject.

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