Governing As New Labour

This follow-up volume to the same editors' highly-acclaimed New Labour in Government provides a systematic assessment of Blair's first term and the continuities and changes into his second. Bringing together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities in a tightly-edited format, it places particular emphasis on the evolution of New Labour's political performance, policy and statecraft set in its historical, ideological and organizational context.

Review: [H]ighly readable and surprisingly comprehensive... it is a tightly edited and well-argued text that amounts to more than the sum of its parts. More importantly it updates much existing analysis of New Labour in power by considering the second term.' - Paul Riseborough, Journal of European Affairs '[A] valuable text...Unlike much work on New Labour, there are few rhetorical flourishes, for this is a serious and focused exercise...

All the essays offer a sober analysis...There is much consistency in the findings across the different themes.' - Jonathan S. Davies, Political Studies Review