New Labour

SAM BEER Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, Harvard UniversityLAURENT BOUVET Lecturer in Political Science, University of Lille and Institute for Political Studies, ParisANDREAS BUSCH University of Heidelberg, GermanyANNA COOTE King's Fund, LondonCOLIN CROUCH Professor, European University Institute, ItalySUSAN GIAIMO Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, USAANTON HEMERIJCK Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsPAUL JOHNSON The Financial Services AuthorityMARC LANDY Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College, USAPHILIP MANOW Minda De Gunzberg Centre for European Studies, Harvard UniversityFRÉDÉRIC MICHEL Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research, Institute for Public Policy Research, LondonPIPPA NORRIS Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, HarvardCAREY OPPENHEIM Research Director, Institute for Public Policy Research, LondonMICHELE SALVATI Commisione Lavoro Gruppo Democratici, RomeSTEVEN TELES Professor, Department of Politics, Brandeis University, USAFRANK VANDENBROUCKE Kabinet van de Minister van Sociale Zaken en Pensioenen, BrusselsJELLE VISSER Max-Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne, GermanyMARGARET WEIR Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USASTUART WOOD Magdalen College, Oxford

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: New Labour and Future of Progressive Politics; S.White PART I: THE IDEOLOGY OF NEW LABOUR The Ambiguities of the Third Way; S.White New Labour: Old Liberalism; S.Beer New Labour and Public Opinion: The Third Way as Centrism?; P.Norris PART II: NEW LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT Education and Training: Tensions at the Heart of the British Third Way; S.Wood New Labour: A Distinctive Vision of Welfare Policy?; P.Johnson Enabling Participation? New Labour's Welfare to Work Policies; C.Oppenheim A Third Way in Industrial Relations?; C.Crouch Decentralization under New Labour: A Civic Liberal Perspective; S.Teles & M.Landy Feminism and the Third Way: A Call for Dialogue; A.Coote PART III: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES The Collapse of Bill Clinton's Third Way; M.Weir Prolegomena to the Third Way Debate; M.Salvati European Social Democracy and the Third Way: Convergence, Divisions, and Shared Questions; F.Vandenbroucke The SPD and the Neue Mitte in Germany; A.Busch & P.Manow Dutch Lessons in Social Pragmatism; A.Hemerijck & J.Visser Pluralism and the Future of the French Left; L.Bouvet & F.Michel Conclusion: New Labour and the Uncertain Futures of Progressive Politics; S.Giaimo & S.White Index