New Labour in Britain
New Democratic Centralism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6408343 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleanor Shaw (0000-0002-6614-6729, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 147-170 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713601618 |
| OpenAlex | W2123555125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article uses a case study - the introduction in 1997 of new policy machinery - to analyse competing claims about the nature of the Labour Party's organisational transformation. It aims to demonstrate that whilst the new policy process was presented as a move towards greater democracy, both its general design and its modes of operation rendered inevitable the production of a general election manifesto in 2001 (the culmination of the process) whose contents coincided very closely to the leadership's tastes. The article then seeks to account for the form Labour's transformation took, drawing on the work of Michels and Lipset and his colleagues
Centralized government · Culmination · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · General election · Manifesto · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Social Policy and Reform Studies
New Labour and the Trade Unions in Britain
The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour
Electing the Leader
British Devolution and the Labour Party
Exploring Variations in Intra-party Democracy
Challenging the Leadership
Rebellion by the Seaside
Selecting the labour leader
Institutional Resilience Meets Critical Junctures
Patterns of Party Integration, Influence and Autonomy in Seven Federations
The New Sub-National Politics of the British Labour Party
The ‘how’ of election manifestos in the British Labour Party
Power and the (il)legitimacy of political parties
Deliberative multiculturalism in New Labour's Britain
Mainstream parties and climate policy development
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |