The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 11
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: How to Assess the Blair Legacy?......Page 20
Part I: Politics......Page 40
1 Blair\'s Electoral Record......Page 42
2 The Party is Over: The \"Modernization\" of the British Labour Party......Page 58
3 The Conservatives: Trounced, Transfixed – and Transformed?......Page 71
4 The Liberal Democrats after Blair......Page 84
5 The Pressure Group Challenge......Page 99
6 New Labour, the Third Way and Social Democracy: An Ideological Assessment......Page 113
Part II: Policy......Page 126
7 Blair and the NHS: Resistible Force Meets Moveable Object?......Page 128
8 Reformulating Social Policy: The Minimum Wage, the New Deal, and the Working Families Tax Credit......Page 141
9 New Labour and the British Model of Capitalism......Page 154
10 Judicial Reform and Human Rights......Page 169
Part III: Governance......Page 182
11 Tony Blair as Prime Minister......Page 184
12 The Role of Parliament under Blair......Page 197
13 The Blair Government, Devolution and Regionalism in the United Kingdom......Page 209
14 Mayors, Monitors and Measurers: Blair\'s Legacy to Local Democracy......Page 223
15 The Constitutional Revolution of Tony Blair......Page 238
Part IV: Foreign Affairs......Page 252
16 What Difference Did He Make? Tony Blair and British Foreign Policy from 1997–2007......Page 254
17 The Mistake Heard Round the World: Iraq and the Blair Legacy......Page 266
18 A Just War: Prime Minister Tony Blair and the End of Saddam\'s Iraq......Page 279
19 US-UK Relations: Structure, Agency and the Special Relationship......Page 292
20 Blair and the European Union......Page 304
Conclusion: The Legacy of Tony Blair......Page 318
References......Page 330
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