The moderniser's dilemma : radical politics in the age of Blair
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The moderniser's dilemma : radical politics in the age of Blair
Lawrence & Wishart, 1998
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"[Published] in association with Sign of the Times"
Includes index
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Description
Tony Blair's government promises the making of a new Britain. A constitutional revolution, welfare to work and lifelong learning have become the lexicon of a political reformation. The labels "left" and "right" have been superseded by the claims of the new and the defeat of the old, modernization versus traditionalism are the faultlines that determine politics today. This text explores the varying options for radical politics that exist on the terrain of the new Labour Britain - options which pose difficult choices as assessments of Blair's Premiership begin to take shape. Yet the choices will help determine whether the radicalism of the early 21st century will reproduce the progressive principles and policies of the past 100 years, or will be founded on new values and visions. Party reform, the restructuring of the British state, the competing claims of the theories of modernization, and the potential appeal of an alternative politics of the new are all chronicled in this text.
Table of Contents
Ann Coddington & Mark Perryman, Introduction - Stephen Twigg, The Diary of a New Labour MP - Andrew Gamble, The Dilemmas of Modernisation - Rupa Huq, Currying Favour: The Asian Vote - Nina Fishman, The State We're no t in - Wendy Wheeler, Not in Front of the Children - Jeremy Gilbert, New Labour, New Britpop? - Tim Bewes, idealism in a Cynical Age - Nicola Baird, Politics of Small Change - Michael Gove, New Conservatism - Kevin Davey, After New Labour - Paul Richards, The Permanent Revolution of New Labour - Gerry Hassan, Caledonia Dreaming, The Making of a New Labour Scotland - Andrew Blake, New Labour's Cultural Policy - Anne Showstack Sassoon, Gramsci, Blair and Us - Geoff Andrews, New Labour's Intellectual Diaspora.
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