New Labour

This collection of essays examines New Labour's claim to stand in the vanguard of a new form of progressive politics. By examining the ideology of New Labour, the major policy initiatives of Labour government, and the record and prospects of social democratic and progressive governments in the USA and elsewhere in Europe, the contributors attempt to disentangle the progressive and conservative aspects of New Labour politics and the possibilities for genuine progressive advance in Britain and other advanced capitalist countries.

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SAM BEER Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, Harvard University LAURENT BOUVET Lecturer in Political Science, University of Lille and Institute for Political Studies, Paris ANDREAS BUSCH University of Heidelberg, Germany ANNA COOTE King's Fund, London COLIN CROUCH Professor, European University Institute, Italy SUSAN GIAIMO Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, USA ANTON HEMERIJCK Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PAUL JOHNSON The Financial Services Authority MARC LANDY Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College, USA PHILIP MANOW Minda De Gunzberg Centre for European Studies, Harvard University FRÉDÉRIC MICHEL Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research, Institute for Public Policy Research, London PIPPA NORRIS Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard CAREY OPPENHEIM Research Director, Institute for Public Policy Research, London MICHELE SALVATI Commisione Lavoro Gruppo Democratici, Rome STEVEN TELES Professor, Department of Politics, Brandeis University, USA FRANK VANDENBROUCKE Kabinet van de Minister van Sociale Zaken en Pensioenen, Brussels JELLE VISSER Max-Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne, Germany MARGARET WEIR Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA STUART WOOD Magdalen College, Oxford

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: New Labour and Future of Progressive Politics; S.White PART I: THE IDEOLOGY OF NEW LABOUR The Ambiguities of the Third Way; S.White New Labour: Old Liberalism; S.Beer New Labour and Public Opinion: The Third Way as Centrism?; P.Norris PART II: NEW LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT Education and Training: Tensions at the Heart of the British Third Way; S.Wood New Labour: A Distinctive Vision of Welfare Policy?; P.Johnson Enabling Participation? New Labour's Welfare to Work Policies; C.Oppenheim A Third Way in Industrial Relations?; C.Crouch Decentralization under New Labour: A Civic Liberal Perspective; S.Teles & M.Landy Feminism and the Third Way: A Call for Dialogue; A.Coote PART III: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES The Collapse of Bill Clinton's Third Way; M.Weir Prolegomena to the Third Way Debate; M.Salvati European Social Democracy and the Third Way: Convergence, Divisions, and Shared Questions; F.Vandenbroucke The SPD and the Neue Mitte in Germany; A.Busch & P.Manow Dutch Lessons in Social Pragmatism; A.Hemerijck & J.Visser Pluralism and the Future of the French Left; L.Bouvet & F.Michel Conclusion: New Labour and the Uncertain Futures of Progressive Politics; S.Giaimo & S.White Index