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100 1 $aDiamond, Patrick,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe British Labour Party in opposition and power 1979-2019 :$bforward march halted? /$cPatrick Diamond.
263 $a2010
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2021.
300 $a1 online resource
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bn$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the Labour Party and the reinvention of social democracy in post-war Britain -- The crisis of labourism : Britain in new times -- Historical roots : conscience and class in British politics -- New Labour and the centre-left across the world -- Modernisation in hard times -- Institutional legacies -- Shaping secular trends -- Towards the new progressive settlement -- New Labour's broken legacy? -- Conclusion : the strange death of Labour England?
520 $a"This book offers a novel account of the Labour party's years in opposition and power since 1979, in particular examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour's sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Forty years on from the 1979 disaster, however, Labour finds itself on the edge of oblivion once again. Defeated in 2010, it entered a further cycle of degeneration and decline. Like social democratic parties across Europe, it failed to identify a fresh ideological rationale in the aftermath of the great financial crisis. Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews and unpublished papers, the book focuses on decisive points of transformational change in the party's development and raises a perennial concern of present-day debate, namely whether Labour is a party capable of transforming the ideological weather, shaping a new paradigm in British politics, or whether it is a party that should be content to govern with parameters set by its Conservative opponents. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British Politics, political parties, British political party history, Labour Party history and contemporary history"--$cProvided by publisher.
588 $aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
610 20 $aLabour Party (Great Britain)
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1979-1997.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1997-2007.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y2007-
776 08 $iPrint version:$aDiamond, Patrick.$tThe British Labour Party in opposition and power 1979-2019$dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.$z9781138817876$w(DLC) 2020023451
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio15307013$zTaylor & Francis eBooks
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