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New Labour and Thatcherism

Political Change in Britain

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Richard Heffernan

    1. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Exploring Political Change

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 1-16

  3. Beyond the Thatcher Decade: The Politics of ‘New’ Labour

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 17-28

  4. The Politics of Thatcherism

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 29-46

  5. Explaining Thatcherism: Project and Process

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 47-64

  6. Modernisation: The Transformation of the Labour Party

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 65-84

  7. How and Why Parties Change: Identifying Environmental Contexts

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 85-109

  8. Party Competition Driven Party Change: The Politics of ‘Catch-Up’

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 110-138

  9. A Theory of Consensus Politics

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 139-158

  10. Thatcherism and the Reinvention of Labour

    • Richard Heffernan
    Pages 159-178

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 179-234
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About this book

Labour's 1997 victory was widely credited to the party's reinvention of itself as New Labour. This book argues that the transformation of the Labour Party is best understood as the product of Thatcherism, and marks the emergence of a new consensus in British politics.

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  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Richard Heffernan

About the author

RICHARD HEFFERNAN is Lecturer in Government and Politics at The Open University in the UK, and has previously taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is co-author of Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party (1992) and co-editor of The Labour Party: a Centenary History (2000).

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