New Labour and Thatcherism

1. Front Matter

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2. Exploring Political Change

   • Richard Heffernan

   Pages 1-16

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

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   Pages 17-28

4. The Politics of Thatcherism

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   Pages 29-46

5. Explaining Thatcherism: Project and Process

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   Pages 47-64

6. Modernisation: The Transformation of the Labour Party

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   Pages 65-84

7. How and Why Parties Change: Identifying Environmental Contexts

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   Pages 85-109

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

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   Pages 110-138

9. A Theory of Consensus Politics

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10. Thatcherism and the Reinvention of Labour

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    Pages 159-178

11. Back Matter

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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.

• politics
• Thatcher
• transformation
• British Politics

• The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  Richard Heffernan

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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