Synopses & Reviews
Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock have gathered together a team of leading politicians, journalists, and academics in this controversial look at the future of the centre-left in Britain. The contributors identify the failures of social democracy and liberalism in the last century and seek to unify these two strands of progressive thinking, providing insightful analysis of the opportunities and threats that face New Labour and the centre-left.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Case and the Prospects for Progressive Politics * Liberalism Social: Then and Now--Tony Wright * The Threat of the Right--Stephen Twigg & Andrew Pakes * Do Two Tribes Have to War?--Don MacIntyre * Blair's Progressive Paradox--Steve Richards * Is There a Progressive Electorate?--David Cowling *
Part II: Giving Government Legitimacy: New Structures and Culture for a New Century * The Second Wave of Constitutional Reform--Pam Giddy * The Sociological Foundations of Pluralist Politics--Michael Rustin * Politics with a Purpose: Reforming the House of Commons--Peter Riddell & Greg Power * A Third Sector as Well as a Third Way--Olly Grender & Kate Parminter * Scotland: An Experiment in New Politics--Kirsty Milne * The Progressive Council: The Case for Collaborative Local Politics--Dave Sullivan & Andrew Stevens *
Part III: The Issues for the New Century * Progressive Economics: Trust the People--Chris Huhne * The Globalisation of Power--Paddy Ashdown * Socialising Markets--Philip Collins * Making Society Just--Don Foster * Sustaining Development--Roger Levett * Feminism Finds a Foothold in the Centre-Left--Harriet Harman * Family Policy: Opening Up Choice--Ruth Kelly * More Health, Less Service--Anna Coote * Europe and the New Politics--Robin Cook & Menzies Campbell *
Part IV: A Roundtable Discussion on the Prospects for a Progressive Century--Will Hutton, Polly Toynbee, Mark Oaten, Matthew Taylor, Ruth Lister, Philip Dodd, Calum Macdonald, David Marquand & Neal Lawson Part I: The Case and the Prospects for Progressive Politics * Liberalism Social: Then and Now--Tony Wright * The Threat of the Right--Stephen Twigg & Andrew Pakes * Do Two Tribes Have to War?--Don MacIntyre * Blair's Progressive Paradox--Steve Richards * Is There a Progressive Electorate?--David Cowling * Part II: Giving Government Legitimacy: New Structures and Culture for a New Century * The Second Wave of Constitutional Reform--Pam Giddy * The Sociological Foundations of Pluralist Politics--Michael Rustin * Politics with a Purpose: Reforming the House of Commons--Peter Riddell & Greg Power * A Third Sector as Well as a Third Way--Olly Grender & Kate Parminter * Scotland: An Experiment in New Politics--Kirsty Milne * The Progressive Council: The Case for Collaborative Local Politics--Dave Sullivan & Andrew Stevens * Part III: The Issues for the New Century * Progressive Economics: Trust the People--Chris Huhne * The Globalisation of Power--Paddy Ashdown * Socialising Markets--Philip Collins * Making Society Just--Don Foster * Sustaining Development--Roger Levett * Feminism Finds a Foothold in the Centre-Left--Harriet Harman * Family Policy: Opening Up Choice--Ruth Kelly * More Health, Less Service--Anna Coote * Europe and the New Politics--Robin Cook & Menzies Campbell * Part IV: A Roundtable Discussion on the Prospects for a Progressive Century--Will Hutton, Polly Toynbee, Mark Oaten, Matthew Taylor, Ruth Lister, Philip Dodd, Calum Macdonald, David Marquand & Neal Lawson