In this important new book, Stephen Driver and Luke Martell examine
how the Blair government is re-shaping Britain, Britain's place in
Europe and British social democracy. This timely study of Labour's
first term in power for two decades challenges the view that New
Labour has thrown in the towel to Thatcherite neo-liberalism.
Driver and Martell argue that Tony Blair's government has in fact
taken politics and policy-making beyond Thatcherism. But they also
cast doubt on some of the social democratic claims of Labour
modernizers. While Labour's stunning election victories in 1997 and
2001 have given the Blair government an unprecedented opportunity
to shape the political and policy landscape in Labour's image,
Blair's Britain continues to bear the imprint of eighteen years of
radical Conservative government.
"Blair's Britain" explores the central policy dilemmas faced by
the Labour Party in government in its second term and beyond: the
balance between social justice and economic efficiency; strong
government and pluralist politics; and work and home life. The
authors explore how social democrats and progressive politicians
across Europe in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and
the Mediterranean, as well as the United States, have responded to
the challenges of globalization and social change - and examine the
comparative politics of social democracy across Europe and the rest
of the world today.
This book is the most comprehensive survey of New Labour yet to
appear, and will be read by students of politics and sociology as
well as being accessible to the general reader.
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