New Labour
The Road Less Travelled
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6353379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Meredith (0000-0003-2382-1015) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 163-171 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9256.00193 |
| OpenAlex | W2009900496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article offers a contribution to the debate in recent issues of this journal concerning the relative ‘newness’ or otherwise of New Labour. It briefly assesses the significant arguments of the respective academic protagonists and asks if, in responding to a changing social and economic climate, New Labour, the highly focused use of language and rhetoric aside, is, in a significant sense, different to the measured, pragmatic and reformist revisions of the past. It emphasises significant associations and continuities in Labour's recent evolution and the largely rhetorical and politically (and electorally) expedient nature of the party's current designation. It offers an interpretation of New Labour, based around two related observations of the party's historically broad and complex political culture and diverse perceptions and preferences of Labour's traditionally centre-right ‘governing elite’, that suggests that the post-1994 ‘New’ Labour party possesses significant precedents within elements of Labour's diverse, centre right ‘dominant coalition
Aside · Elite · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Innovation as politics
What matters is what works’
At ideological loggerheads? Identifying and clarifying the discursive differences between Blair and Brown on education
It's Labour, but Not as we Know it.’ Media Lesson-Drawing and the Disciplining of Social Democracy
Mr Crosland's Nightmare? New Labour and Equality in Historical Perspective
British Social Democracy beyond New Labour
Factionalism on the Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party in the 1970s
Broad Churches, Big Theory and One Small Example
The Logic of No Alternative? Political Scientists, Historians and the Politics of Labour's Past
The Terms of the Neo‐Liberal Consensus
From Old Labour to New Labour
New Labour in Perspective
A New Look at New Labour
Towards a ‘cultural theory’ of parliamentary party groups
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2013 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |