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The Political Philosophy of New Labour (Hardcover)
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The Political Philosophy of New Labour (Hardcover)
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Is New Labour more style than substance? Are its policies merely
driven by pragmatism? Little has been published on the party's core
ideas, the very existence of which is contested. This book is a
study of the political philosophy of New Labour. Matt Beech
approaches the study of New Labour's political philosophy in two
ways. The first section of the book attempts to place New Labour in
the intellectual history of the Labour Party and to set the context
out of which New Labour has developed. It charts the intellectual
history of the Labour Party from its nineteenth century origins in
the Labour Movement, through the twentieth century, and into the
21st Century.The second section is an analysis of the basic ideas
of New Labour and their contemporary interpretation of traditional
values such as equality, liberty and community. This is then
compared to New Right and various 'Old Labour' or traditional
social democrat perspectives on these values. Matt Beech claims
that New Labour in power is a revisionist social democratic
government. Beech argues that New Labour believes in positive as
well as negative liberty, prioritarian conceptions of equality that
focus on the poorest groups in society and believes in a
communitarian social philosophy.
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