New Labour New Welfare State: The 'Third Way' in British Social Policy

NEW LABOUR, NEW WELFARE STATE?......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 7
List of tables and figures......Page 11
List of acronyms......Page 12
British welfare state in context......Page 14
New welfare state?......Page 16
New Labour......Page 18
Reforming the welfare state......Page 24
The Third Way......Page 26
Content outline......Page 36
‘Rolling back the State’: Conservative policy 1979-97......Page 42
Out with the Old, in with the New – changes in Labour’s position 1979-97......Page 50
‘Prudence for a purpose’ – Labour’s policy in government......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 61
Introduction......Page 64
Conservative health policy 1979-97......Page 65
Labour’s evolving health policy......Page 69
The new NHS: modern, dependable?......Page 71
Implementing Labour’s health policy......Page 76
New Labour and a new welfare state?......Page 83
Conclusion: Labour, the market and the State......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
Developments 1979-97......Page 93
Privatisation......Page 97
New Labour and the personal social services......Page 99
Old Labour, New Labour and Conservative approaches to the personal social services......Page 108
Conclusion......Page 112
Introduction......Page 114
Standards......Page 116
Choice......Page 123
Lifelong learning......Page 126
Accountability......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 133
Introduction......Page 136
The Conservative inheritance......Page 137
Housing under the Conservatives 1979-97......Page 139
Labour’s inheritance......Page 144
Housing policy under New Labour......Page 147
Comprehensive Spending Review......Page 155
New Labour, new housing policy?......Page 157
Conclusion......Page 159
Introduction......Page 162
New Labour and the poor......Page 166
The Third Way in social security......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 182
Introduction......Page 184
Employment and job creation......Page 186
Employee relations......Page 196
Trade union recognition......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 202
Introduction......Page 204
Law and order under the Conservatives: tough–tender–tough again......Page 205
New Labour and the new politics of law and order......Page 209
Law and order policy I: law enforcement......Page 211
Law and order policy II: sentencing and penal strategies......Page 216
Conclusion......Page 224
Introduction......Page 226
Competing traditions of citizenship......Page 227
The New Labour agenda......Page 232
Workfare state......Page 237
Popular discourse and citizenship......Page 239
Conclusion......Page 245
Defining accountability......Page 248
Social democratic consensus and its critics......Page 249
New managerial accountability......Page 252
Labour’s journey......Page 257
Democratic renewal......Page 261
Conclusion: New Labour, the differentiated polity and the Third Way......Page 265
Introduction......Page 270
Electoral politics and policy development after 1992......Page 272
The success of the New Democrats in the United States......Page 274
Lessons of Clinton’s New Democrats for Labour......Page 277
Labour’s Welfare to Work......Page 283
Conclusion......Page 289
Introduction......Page 294
Old Left......Page 295
New Right......Page 297
The Third Way......Page 298
New welfare state?......Page 301
Explanations......Page 307
Conclusion......Page 311
Bibliography......Page 314
Index......Page 352