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The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs

Editat de T. Casey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 ian 2009
Exploring how Tony Blair and New Labour changed British politics, policy, governance and foreign affairs, this volume stands as a key actor on the world and domestic stage, delving into Blair's foreign policy legacy, with empahsis on the Iraq War and Anglo-American relations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230216624
ISBN-10: 0230216625
Pagini: 343
Ilustrații: XVIII, 343 p. 3 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:2009
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

'This is an admirable short-term description and evaluation of the politics, foreign and domestic policies, institutional impact, and general consequences of the Blair governments comprehensive in scope, encyclopaedic in knowledge, careful in judgment, and remarkably integrated and readable.' - Donley T. Studlar, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University, USA

Notă biografică

JAMES E. ALT is Frank G. Thomson Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University, USATIM BALE teaches British and Comparative Party Politics at Sussex University, UKMARK BENNISTER is an ESRC funded doctoral researcher, studying comparative prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Australia, in the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex, UKMARK BEVIR is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USAJONATHAN BRADBURY is the co-convener of the UK PSA Territorial Politics Research Network and is academic convener for the UK PSA annual conference, Swansea University 2008TED R. BROMUND is the Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, UKDAVID COATES holds the Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, USADAVID CUTTS is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Change at the University of Manchester, UKJOHN DUMBRELL is Professor of Government in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UKSTEPEHN DYSON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, USADAVID DENVER is Professor of Politics at Lancaster University, UKJUSTIN FISHER is Professor of Political Science at Brunel University , UKCHRIS GAME is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Local Government Studies, UKWYN GRANT is President of the UK Political Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science AssociationFLORENCE FAUCHER-KING is Associate Professor in European studies, political science and sociology at the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University, USASCOTT JAMES is a doctoral research student at the University of Manchester, UKALISTAIR HOWARD teaches political economy, comparative politics and public policy at Temple University's Political Science Department, USAJOEL KRIEGER is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, USARICHARD MAIMAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Maine, USA and a Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UKKAI OPPERMANN is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne, GermanyCALUM PATON is Professor at Keele University, UKNICK RANDALL is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Newcastle, UKANDREW RUSSELL is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UKJAMES SLOAM is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway University, UKMARK STUART is a researcher in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UKJON TONGE is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, UKJEROLD WALTMAN teaches at Baylor University, USA