Brown Government - A Policy Evaluation

Informationen zum Autor Matt Beech is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull. His most recent monograph! with Kevin Hickson! is Labour's Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (2007).Simon Lee is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hull. His research interests include global political economy! the politics and national identity of England and the politics of Gordon Brown. His most recent monograph is Best for Britain? The Politics and Legacy of Gordon Brown (2007). Zusammenfassung This book provides an interim evaluation of Gordon Brown’s Labour administration through identifying continuities and discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997. This book was published as a special issue of Policy Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Brown GovernmentMatt Beech and Simon Lee 2. A Puzzle of Ideas and Policy: Gordon Brown as Prime MinisterMatt Beech 3. Rock of Stability? The Political Economy of the Brown Government Simon Lee 4. The Public Services under Gordon Brown: Similar Reforms! Less Money Simon Griffiths 5. Gordon Brown and Public Services Reform:A Project in Search of a 'Big Idea'?Mark Evans 6. Work to be Done? Welfare Reform from Blair to Brown Stephen Driver 7. Gordon Brown and International PolicyVictoria Honeyman8. Conclusions: The Prospects of Brown's Social DemocracyMatt Beech and Simon Lee

Product details

• Authors: Matt (University of Hull Beech
• Assisted by: Matt Beech (Editor), Simon Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138988866
• ISBN: 978-1-138-98886-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, British & Irish history, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies