🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£50.00
Out of Stock

British Politics in the Global Age

Can Social Democracy Survive?

By (author) Joel Krieger
Format: Hardback
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Published: 25th Sep 1999
Dimensions: w 161mm h 236mm d 23mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN-10: 0745620248
ISBN-13: 9780745620244
Barcode No: 9780745620244
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
Joel Krieger, one of America's most perceptive observers of British politics, provides an in-depth study of New Labour.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
'This is an ambitious and original study of the politics of New Labour ... It offers a fresh perspective and a challenging assessment of what New Labour needs to do to carry its project through to success.' Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield
'It is most exciting to have a book on New Labour that focuses not on political parties or personalities or even just on economic and constitutional challenges but on our changed social conditions - and that includes new ethnicities and transnational identities. Ethnic minority groups are struggling with what "community" means - in practical terms, what it means to be Muslim or Indian or black. Krieger sees these debates as key to the reconceptualization of collectivity today and challenges New Labour to connect these debates to its core value of community. His understanding of a new multicultural social democracy is an important contribution to the reformulation of centre-left politics - and not just in Britain.' Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol


'This is a powerful and original argument for the renewal of social democracy in Britain. Like Tony Blair, Joel Krieger recognizes that the Labour Party must break radically with the welfare state which it took the lead in establishing after World War Two.' Samuel H. Beer, Harvard University





"His analysis is something of a tour de force: globalisation and post-Fordism, deindustrialisation and the British working class, the impact of women and minorities on work and social policy." Michael St John Parker, Parliamentary Affairs





" . an important book that adds clarity to the often amorphous notion of globalization.The book's conceptual and theoretical rigor, combined with its concern to analyse the effect of changed structural conditions on social democratic politics, serves as a useful antidote to the journalistic obsession with the "Blair effect" and the ubiquitous spin doctors.The book is an important and enriching contribution to the analysis of British politics. It eschews the language of "no alternative" to argue that in a global age New Labour can and should seek to craft a distinct form of social democratic politics equipped for a multinational and multiethnic Britain. It deserves to be widely read." Andrew P Geddes, University of Liverpool, American Political Science Review