Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: How to Assess the Blair Legacy? T.Casey Timeline of the Blair Years PART I: POLITICS Blair's Electoral Record;  D.Denver  & J.Fisher The Party is Over: The 'Modernization' of British Labour; F.Faucher-King The Conservatives: Trounced, Transfixed, Transformed?; T.Bale The Liberal Democrats After Blair; D.Cutts  & A.Russell The Pressure Group Challenge;  W.Grant New Labour, the Third Way and Social Democracy: An Ideological Assessment;  N.Randall  & J.Sloam PART II: POLICY Blair and the NHS: Resistable Force Meets Moveable Object?;  C.Paton Reformulating Social Policy: The Minimum Wage, the New Deal, and the Working Families Tax Credit;  J.Waltman New Labour and the British Model of Capitalism;  T.Casey  & A.Howard Judicial Reform and Human Rights; M.Bevir  & R.Maiman PART III: GOVERNANCE Tony Blair as Prime Minister;  M.Bennister The Role of Parliament under Blair; M.Stuart Territorial Politics in the UK after Devolution;  J.Bradbury Mayors, Monitors and Measurers: Blair's Legacy to Local Democracy; C.Game The Constitutional Revolution of Tony Blair; J.Alt PART IV: FOREIGN AFFAIRS What Difference Did He Make? Tony Blair and British Foreign Policy; S.Dyson The Mistake Heard Round the World: Iraq and the Blair Legacy;  D.Coates  & J.Krieger A Just War: Prime Minister Tony Blair and the End of Saddam's Iraq; T.Bromund Reflections on the Contemporary US-UK Special Relationship: Structure and Agency in Anglo-American Relations; J.Dumbrell Blair and the European Union;  S.James  & K.Oppermann CONCLUSION: The Legacy of Tony Blair; J.Tonge References

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JAMES E. ALT is Frank G. Thomson Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University, USA TIM BALE teaches British and Comparative Party Politics at Sussex University, UK MARK BENNISTER is an ESRC funded doctoral researcher, studying comparative prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Australia, in the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex, UK MARK BEVIR is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA JONATHAN BRADBURY is the co-convener of the UK PSA Territorial Politics Research Network and is academic convener for the UK PSA annual conference, Swansea University 2008 TED R. BROMUND is the Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, UK DAVID COATES holds the Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, USA DAVID CUTTS is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Change at the University of Manchester, UK JOHN DUMBRELL is Professor of Government in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK STEPEHN DYSON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, USA DAVID DENVER is Professor of Politics at Lancaster University, UK JUSTIN FISHER is Professor of Political Science at Brunel University , UK CHRIS GAME is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Local Government Studies, UK WYN GRANT is President of the UK Political Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association FLORENCE FAUCHER-KING is Associate Professor in European studies, political science and sociology at the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University, USA SCOTT JAMES is a doctoral research student at the University of Manchester, UK ALISTAIR HOWARD teaches political economy, comparative politics and public policy at Temple University's Political Science Department, USA JOEL KRIEGER is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA RICHARD MAIMAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Maine, USA and a Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK KAI OPPERMANN is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne, Germany CALUM PATON is Professor at Keele University, UK NICK RANDALL is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK ANDREW RUSSELL is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK JAMES SLOAM is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway University, UK MARK STUART is a researcher in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK JON TONGE is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK JEROLD WALTMAN teaches at Baylor University, USA

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JAMES E. ALT is Frank G. Thomson Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University, USA TIM BALE teaches British and Comparative Party Politics at Sussex University, UK MARK BENNISTER is an ESRC funded doctoral researcher, studying comparative prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Australia, in the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex, UK MARK BEVIR is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA JONATHAN BRADBURY is the co-convener of the UK PSA Territorial Politics Research Network and is academic convener for the UK PSA annual conference, Swansea University 2008 TED R. BROMUND is the Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, UK DAVID COATES holds the Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, USA DAVID CUTTS is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Change at the University of Manchester, UK JOHN DUMBRELL is Professor of Government in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK STEPEHN DYSON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, USA DAVID DENVER is Professor of Politics at Lancaster University, UK JUSTIN FISHER is Professor of Political Science at Brunel University , UK CHRIS GAME is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Local Government Studies, UK WYN GRANT is President of the UK Political Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association FLORENCE FAUCHER-KING is Associate Professor in European studies, political science and sociology at the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University, USA SCOTT JAMES is a doctoral research student at the University of Manchester, UK ALISTAIR HOWARD teaches political economy, comparative politics and public policy at Temple University's Political Science Department, USA JOEL KRIEGER is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA RICHARD MAIMAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Maine, USA and a Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK KAI OPPERMANN is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne, Germany CALUM PATON is Professor at Keele University, UK NICK RANDALL is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK ANDREW RUSSELL is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK JAMES SLOAM is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway University, UK MARK STUART is a researcher in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK JON TONGE is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK JEROLD WALTMANteaches at Baylor University, USA

Reviews

'This is an admirable short-term description and evaluation of the politics, foreign and domestic policies, institutional impact, and general consequences of the Blair governments comprehensive in scope, encyclopaedic in knowledge, careful in judgment, and remarkably integrated and readable.' - Donley T. Studlar, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University, USA