Год выпуска: 2002 Автор: Stephen Driver Издательство: Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9780745624587
Описание
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...
