New labour's ideology: A reply to Michael Freeden

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 102-109

  Buckler, Steve ^a   Dolowitz, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033634109     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00283     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. 1 Michael Freeden, 'The Ideology of New Labour', Political Quarterly, 1999, pp. 42-51.
2. 2 Constitutional reform might also be thought to follow from a social-liberal position, but we will confine the current discussion to the area of social and economic policy.
3. 3 Tony Blair, speech delivered in Cape Town, January 1999.
4. 4 Gordon Brown, speech to Labour party conference, September 1998.
5. 5 Tony Blair, The Third Way, London, Fabian Society, 1998, p. 3.
6. 6 See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973. We do not suggest that New Labour have consciously sought to adopt or implement a 'Rawlsian' agenda. We merely refer to Rawls here for the purposes of a more theoretical identification of what we take to be a social-liberal position. Equally, of course, this brief reference to Rawls does not begin to do justice to his extensive, ambitious and subtle argument.
7. 7 Blair, The Third Way, p. 3.
8. 8 Gordon Brown, speech to Labour party conference, September 1998.
9. 9 Tony Blair, speech delivered at Aylesbury Estate, Southwark, London, 2 June 1997.
10. 10 Gordon Brown, 'Why Labour is still Loyal to the Poor', Guardian, 2 August 1997.
11. 11 For an extended argument to this effect, see Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 520-9. See also John Rawls, Political Liberalism, New York, Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 40-3.
12. 11 For an extended argument to this effect, see Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 520-9. See also John Rawls, Political Liberalism, New York, Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 40-3.
13. 12 Tony Blair, speech to IPPR, London, January 1999.
14. 13 Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 100-1, 275-6.