The new social democracy
By: edited by Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright.
Contributors: Gamble, Andrew.; Wright, Anthony, 1948-
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Socialism -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Politics and government
Description: The essays in this text ask whether New Labour is a complete break with the Labour past and with European social democracy, or whether it should be seen as a powerful restatement of social democratic ideas in a new context.
Notes: "The Political Quarterly in association with the Fabian Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the new social democracy / Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright; title: Premature obsequies: social democracy comes in from the cold / David Marquand; title: European social democracy and new labour: unity in diversity? / Donald Sassoon; title: European social democracy: convergence, divisions, and shared questions / Frank Vandenbroucke; title: Ownership and social democracy / Gerald Holtham; title: The parabola of working class politics / Colin Crouch; title: Globalisation and social democracy / Paul Hirst; title: New Keynesianism and new labour / Will Hutton; title: A response to Will Hutton / Ruth Kelly; title: Environmental democracy / Michael Jacobs; title: The helmsman and the cattle prod / Anna Coote; title: Social democracy in a small country: political leadership or management consultancy? / James McCormick and Graham Leichester; title: New approaches to the welfare state / Julian Le Grand; title: True blood or false genealogy: new labour and British social democratic thought / Michael Freeden; title: 'Rights and responsibilities': a social democratic perspective / Stuart White.