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The Blair Legacy This page intentionally left blank The Blair Legacy Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs Edited By Terrence Casey Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA Selection and editorial matter © Terrence Casey 2009 Individual chapters © their respective authors 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-21661-7 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House,6-10 Kirby Street,London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England,company number 785998,of Houndmills,Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom,Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-21662-4 ISBN 978-0-230-23284-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230232846 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Blair legacy :politics,policy,governance,and foreign affairs / edited By Terrence Casey. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Great Britain—Politics and government—1997–2007.2. Blair,Tony, 1953– I.Casey,Terrence. JN238.B55 2009 320.95109'0511—dc22 2008041051 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 This book is dedicated to my wife, Allison, who is more wonderful than she realizes and more tolerant of me than she ought to be, and to the best three things to come out of the Blair years – Maria, Jack, and Oliver. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables ix List of Figures x Preface and Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction: How to Assess the Blair Legacy? 1 Terrence Casey Part I Politics 1 Blair’s Electoral Record 23 David Denver and Justin Fisher 2 The Party is Over: The “Modernization” of the British 39 Labour Party Florence Faucher-King 3 The Conservatives: Trounced, Transfixed – and Transformed? 52 Tim Bale 4 The Liberal Democrats after Blair 65 Andrew Russell and David Cutts 5 The Pressure Group Challenge 80 Wyn Grant 6 New Labour, the Third Way and Social Democracy: An Ideological Assessment 94 Nick Randall and James Sloam Part II Policy 7 Blair and the NHS: Resistible Force Meets Moveable Object? 109 Calum Paton 8 Reformulating Social Policy: The Minimum Wage, the New Deal, and the Working Families Tax Credit 122 Jerold Waltman 9 New Labour and the British Model of Capitalism 135 Terrence Casey and Alistair Q. Howard vii viii Contents 10 Judicial Reform and Human Rights 150 Mark Bevir and Richard Maiman Part III Governance 11 Tony Blair as Prime Minister 165 Mark Bennister 12 The Role of Parliament under Blair 178 Mark Stuart 13 The Blair Government, Devolution and Regionalism in the United Kingdom 190 Jonathan Bradbury 14 Mayors, Monitors and Measurers: Blair’s Legacy to Local Democracy 204 Chris Game 15 The Constitutional Revolution of Tony Blair 219 James E. Alt Part IV Foreign Affairs 16 What Difference Did He Make? Tony Blair and British Foreign Policy from 1997–2007 235 Stephen Benedict Dyson 17 The Mistake Heard Round the World: Iraq and the Blair Legacy 247 David Coates and Joel Krieger 18 A Just War: Prime Minister Tony Blair and the End of Saddam’s Iraq 260 Ted R. Bromund 19 US-UK Relations: Structure, Agency and the Special Relationship 273 John Dumbrell 20 Blair and the European Union 285 Scott James and Kai Oppermann Conclusion: The Legacy of Tony Blair 299 Jonathan Tonge References 311 Index 335 Tables Table 1.1 Results of general elections, 1997–2005 26 Table 4.1 Modelling Liberal Democrat voting in 2005 68 Table 5.1 Stakeholders responding to consultation on the future of PSD 88 Table 7.1 Key New Labour health policies 110 Table 9.1 Comparative capitalism index scores, 1997–2006 137 Table 9.2 Comparative economic performance, 1997–2007 144 Table 14.1 Labour’s 1997 manifesto pledges concerning ‘Good Local Government’ 206 Table 14.2 Measures of local government scale and fiscal centralisation 210 Table 20.1 Ministerial Committee Structures for EU policy since 1997 294 ix
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