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The Brown government (2009)
Other
Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2009). The Brown government

Ten Years of New Labour (2008)
Book
Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2008). Ten Years of New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing upon the expertise of a team of established researchers, Ten Years of New Labour provides a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the ideas, institutions and policies that shaped the Blair Governments' decade in office. The reader is provi... Read More about Ten Years of New Labour.

Introductory Preface (2008)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2008). Introductory Preface. In Ten Years of New Labour (xix - xxiv). Palgrave Macmillan

New Labour and the Politics of Dominance (2008)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2008). New Labour and the Politics of Dominance. In M. Beech, & S. Lee (Eds.), Ten Years of New Labour (1-16). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584372_1

In attempting to survey New Labour’s period in office one aspect appears to stand out. New Labour’s politics has been and continues to be the politics of dominance. As a government they have set the tone for political discourse and have been the vict... Read More about New Labour and the Politics of Dominance.

Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (2007)
Book
Beech, M. A., & Hickson, K. E. (2007). Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown. I.B. Tauris

"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Lab... Read More about Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown.

New Labour (2004)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2004). New Labour. In M. Beech, K. Hickson, & R. Plant (Eds.), The Struggle for Labour's Soul: Understanding Labour's Political Thought Since 1945 (86-102). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203495049

The election of Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party in 1994 has proved to be the beginning of an epoch in Labour Party history. Blair’s leadership and his desire to modernise and reform the internal and external politics of the Labour Party have... Read More about New Labour.