Developments in British Politics Book

	List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	x
	Preface	xii
	Acknowledgements	xiii
	Notes on the Contributors	xiv
1	Introduction	1
	At the heart of Europe?	1
	A new constitutional settlement?	4
	Which way for British parties?	6
	Conclusion	8
2	A New Politics?	10
	A 'new politics'	10
	The 'old politics'	13
	A second 'consensus'	16
	The Third Way	19
	New political alliances	21
	The Conservatives in opposition	22
	Political divisions	24
	The changing structure of politics	26
	Conclusion	28
3	Towards Multi-Level Governance	29
	The challenge of multi-level governance	30
	Developing the differentiated polity: the Conservatives' legacy and Labour's programme	34
	Governance: unresolved tensions in British polity	39
	Conclusion	44
4	Britain, the EU and the Euro	47
	The EU and British politics	48
	The 'British' position in Europe	49
	The electoral environment: the public's position on Europe	53
	The elite context: the emerging pro- and anti-euro camps	58
	Inter-party competition: a new cleavage in the British party system?	59
	Interest groups, the media and the 'No' and 'Yes' campaigns	62
	The 1999 European Parliament election	64
	Conclusion	67
5	The Law and the Constitution	69
	The changing structure of the British state	69
	The constitutional agenda	76
	The efficiency of the legal system	81
	Conclusion	87
6	Executives and Administrations	88
	The UK core executive	88
	The EU executive	98
	The devolved executives	100
	The administrative dimension	102
	Conclusion	105
7	Legislatures and Assemblies	108
	The new institutions	109
	Composition of the new institutions	112
	Procedures and structures	115
	Modernizing Westminster	118
	Ignoring Westminster	122
	The European Parliament	124
	Conclusion	125
8	Elections and Party Politics	127
	Political alignments and party performance since 1997	127
	Electoral system change	138
	The changing dynamics of Britain's multiple party systems	146
	Conclusions	150
9	Political Parties: Adapting to the Electoral Market	151
	Changing models of party organization	152
	Party competition and political marketing	154
	The changing balance of power within parties	158
	Developments in party funding	165
	Conclusion	168
10	New Media, New Politics	169
	The media market in the UK	171
	Party communications in the new media environment	180
	Conclusion	183
11	Political Participation and Protest	185
	Voting and the increased plurality of political parties in Britain	185
	Protest and demonstration	188
	Participation of women and ethnic minorities	191
	Democratic innovations	194
	Electronic participation	196
	Social capital: rise or fall?	199
	Conclusion	201
12	Citizenship and Culture	203
	The death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales	203
	Models of citizenship	206
	Culture and political culture	208
	Citizenship and political culture in Labour government policy	211
	Conclusion	218
13	Economic Policy	219
	Policy rules: limiting the room for manoeuvre	220
	Public spending control and targeting	228
	The Treasury under Brown	231
	The euro: continuity and change	234
	Conclusion	236
14	Welfare Policy	238
	The policy planning framework	238
	The Third Way	242
	The ideological framework	244
	Rebuilding public services	246
	Welfare-to-work and social exclusion	251
	Conclusion: a new social policy?	254
15	Environmental Policy	257
	Environmentalism metamorphoses into sustainability	258
	Environmental policy integration	260
	Barriers to 'joined-up' policy-making	266
	Transport: a policy mess?	268
	Conflicting policy paradigm	269
	Energy: the dangers of serendipitous policy-making?	271
	Conclusion	274
16	Foreign and Defence Policy	276
	Labour's foreign policy intentions	277
	Multiple actors in foreign policy	278
	Policy dilemmas: arms' trade issues	280
	The Strategic Defence Review	282
	Continuing crises with Iraq	283
	Kosovo	285
	Conclusion: ethical issues and measures of success	286
17	Policy Agendas in a Multi-Level Polity	290
	Setting agendas: agency	293
	Setting agendas: structure	294
	Policy competences	296
	Parties and governments	299
	Interests	303
	Ideas	305
	Guide to Further Reading	308
	Bibliography	317
	Index	344