The Blair Legacy

The Blair Legacy

T. Casey

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2009
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Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9780230216617

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List of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: How to Assess the Blair Legacy? T.Casey Timeline of the Blair Years PART I: POLITICS Blair’s Electoral Record; D.Denver & J.Fisher The Party is Over: The ’Modernization’ of British Labour; F.Faucher-King The Conservatives: Trounced, Transfixed, Transformed?; T.Bale The Liberal Democrats After Blair; D.Cutts & A.Russell The Pressure Group Challenge; W.Grant New Labour, the Third Way and Social Democracy: An Ideological Assessment; N.Randall & J.Sloam PART II: POLICY Blair and the NHS: Resistable Force Meets Moveable Object?; C.Paton Reformulating Social Policy: The Minimum Wage, the New Deal, and the Working Families Tax Credit; J.Waltman New Labour and the British Model of Capitalism; T.Casey & A.Howard Judicial Reform and Human Rights; M.Bevir & R.Maiman PART III: GOVERNANCE Tony Blair as Prime Minister; M.Bennister The Role of Parliament under Blair; M.Stuart Territorial Politics in the UK after Devolution; J.Bradbury Mayors, Monitors and Measurers: Blair’s Legacy to Local Democracy; C.Game The Constitutional Revolution of Tony Blair; J.Alt PART IV: FOREIGN AFFAIRS What Difference Did He Make? Tony Blair and British Foreign Policy; S.Dyson The Mistake Heard Round the World: Iraq and the Blair Legacy; D.Coates & J.Krieger A Just War: Prime Minister Tony Blair and the End of Saddam’s Iraq; T.Bromund Reflections on the Contemporary US-UK Special Relationship: Structure and Agency in Anglo-American Relations; J.Dumbrell Blair and the European Union; S.James & K.Oppermann CONCLUSION: The Legacy of Tony Blair; J.Tonge References

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