Just Society - A Manifesto for Labour

The Just Society presents a series of essays that offer a bold prescriptive for the next Labour government predicated on a combative argument for economic and social change in British society.

Advances an argument for regulating a 21st-century market economy and ordering market outcomes based upon ethical socialist principles
Offers a direct challenge to the Coalition's politics of austerity and outlines specific policy proposals for demand-led, long-term economic growth
Critiques Localism and the 'Big Society' as little more than a contemporary form of neo-liberalism designed to jettison the Labour-built social democratic state
Argues for the necessity of the social democratic state to provide essential public goods and services which endow British citizens with freedom and security
Outlines a series of radical proposals on taxation, social services, civil liberties, the environment, Britain's role in the world, and more

About the author

Matt Beech is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics, School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, University of Hull, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Matt Beech
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.06.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9781118830529
• ISBN: 978-1-118-83052-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues; Political Quarterly Monograph Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science