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Informationen zum Autor David Coates is Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, North CarolinaPeter Lawler is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester Klappentext A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing relationship between election promise and government policy across the whole sweep of New Labour's manifesto agenda. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state; so generating a comprehensive audit of New Labour's electoral fidelity and an academically-informed assessment of New Labour's likely policy trajectory though its first period of office. Zusammenfassung A systematic study of the early performance of New Labour in power. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments! charts opening policy moves! and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state. Inhaltsverzeichnis The character of New Labour - David CoatesNew Labour and the electorate - Andrew RussellNew labour and the Clinton presidency - Douglas JaenickeNew Labour and the "left that is left" in western Europe - Jill LovecyNew Labour and the machinery of government - Martin Burch - Ian HollidayNew Labour and the constitution - Martin Burch - Ian HollidayNew Labour and Northern Ireland - Nick RandallThe economic policy of New Labour - Michael Moran - Elizabeth AlexanderNew Labour's industrial and employment policy - David CoatesNew Labour and the global economy - Rorden WilkinsonNew Labour and the environment - Stephen YoungNew Labour's education policy - Gail Steward New Labour and welfare reform - David PurdeyNew Labour and health - Bruce WoodNew Labour and "law and order" - Inderjeet ParmarNew labour policies for the media and arts - Peter HumphreysEuropean policy - fresh start or false dawn? - Simon BulmerNew Labour and international development - Ralph A. YoungNew Labour and defence - Philip GummettNew Labour's foreign policy - Peter Lawler...