The Blair legacy: politics, policy, governance, and foreign affairs

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 onthe Iraq War and Anglo-American relations. INDICE: 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 - Blairb 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: Blairb 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 theEuropean Union; S.James & K.Oppermann - CONCLUSION: The Legacy of Tony Blair; J.Tonge - References

• ISBN: 978-0-230-21662-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 15/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés