Labour’s Renewal?

Taylor, Gerald R.

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“…Following the 1987 general election defeat, moreover, the party leadership undertook a concerted effort to downscale policy ambitions with regard to the interventionist and redistributive aims of the party's economic policy. Thus, in launching the policy review process, comprising seven policy review groups, the party leadership (and particularly the leadership office) took a firm hand in steering the party towards embracing much of the neo-liberal critique of 'traditional' social democracy, particularly the view that the market was a better allocator of resources than the state (Taylor 1997;Motta and Bailey 2007, 123). For instance, in the 1990 policy review document, Looking to the Future, the party stated: 'We welcome and endorse the efficiency and realism which markets can provide' (Labour Party 1990, 6).…”

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The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation

Bailey

2009

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article argues that existing accounts of the transformation from 'traditional' to 'new' social democracy has thus far only identified the contextual changes that have prompted this move. In doing so, they have failed to account for the motives of social democratic party actors in undertaking the transition to 'new' social democracy in response to those changes. The article draws upon a critical realist method, and Marxist and anti-representational theories, to conceptualise 'traditional' social democratic party relations as suffering from tensions between constituents' demands for decommodification, the attempt by party elites to contain (and thereby 'represent') those demands and the (in)compatibility of this process of containment with the need to recommodify social relations in the light of periodic crises in contemporary capitalism. It argues that these tensions explain the attempt by party elites to promote the move towards 'new' social democracy, the (eventual) acquiescence of party constituents to those attempts and the subsequent exit from social democratic constituencies which has resulted. The argument is made with reference to the British Labour Party and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

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The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation

Bailey

2009

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…It is not clear how 'opportunities' are to be redistributed (see Taylor, 1997;Lister, 1997;White, 1998). Moreover, New Labour's 'genuine' or 'real' equality of opportunity may exist in a different context of carrots and sticks and may be continual rather than 'once off ', but does not appear to be significantly different from the conception that was savagely attacked by Tawney (1964) as 'The Tadpole Society'.…”

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New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state: a new and distinctive approach?

Powell

2000

Critical Social Policy

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New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state: a new and distinctive approach? AbstractThe Labour government elected in May 1997 has seen the reform of the welfare state to be one of its major tasks. Its big idea to achieve this is the third way, which is said to be a new and distinctive approach that differs from both the old left and the new right. It is argued that the third way is best summarized by a new acronym-PAP-pragmatism and populism. It appears to be neither distinctive nor new, leaning to the right rather than the centre or centre-left, and having some roots in the New Poor Law and the mixed economy of welfare of Beveridge.

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Modernization and New Labour, 1987–97

Thorpe¹

2015

A History of the British Labour Party

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Labour’s Renewal?

Cited by 11 publications

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The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation

The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation

New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state: a new and distinctive approach?

Modernization and New Labour, 1987–97

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