{"title":"An exceptional comrade?","authors":"M. Wickham‐Jones","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126858216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127723540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ross McKibbin","authors":"J. Callaghan","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128827706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Too much pluralism, not enough socialism","authors":"Steve Ludlam","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130097380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Labour’s ideological trajectory","authors":"Nick Randall","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00007","url":null,"abstract":"British political parties, and ideological struggle has been endemic within the party since its foundation. It is no surprise, therefore, that studies of the party have endeavoured to understand why Labour’s ideology has shifted repeatedly throughout its history. This chapter considers those efforts. A large and varied literature is available to explain Labour’s ideological movements. Many works address the Labour Party itself. Others examine ideological change in parties in general. Yet others analyse change in social democratic parties in particular. To assess all three strands in the literature requires the application of some form of classification. At the risk of oversimplification, the approach adopted here will be to classify works according to the principal explanatory strategies they adopt. Five strategies are identified and outlined: materialist; ideational; electoral; institutional; and those which synthesise some or all of these four. The five strategies are assessed, and the chapter concludes by outlining an alternative model of Labour’s ideological dynamics that might be usefully applied to the study of the New Labour.","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125899746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective","authors":"S. Fielding, D. Mchugh","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00015","url":null,"abstract":"outlined by David Marquand in his collection of essays of the same name (Marquand 1999). Marquand sought to explain Labour’s historically poor electoral performance by focusing on the party’s inability to unite a sufficient number of working-class and middle-class voters in a sustained anti-Conservative coalition. As will be explained in more detail later, he believed Labour’s attachment to the trade unions was too close and prevented the party making a strong appeal to those outside the labour movement. Marquand was by no means the first academic to alight on this as possible cause of Labour’s disappointing electoral performance (for example, see Stedman Jones 1983). However, the particular means by which he explained Labour’s failure enjoyed a unique purchase among students of the Party, as well as those most responsible for the creation of ‘New’ Labour. Many of Tony Blair’s early speeches delivered as leader owed more than a little to Marquand’s perspective. One of the ‘New’ Labour leader’s closest advisers, Phillip Gould, even used it to justify the policy and organisational changes fostered by Neil Kinnock and Blair since 1983 (Gould 1998: 1–17). Despite Marquand’s own reservations about ‘New’ Labour, the perspective outlined in The Progressive Dilemma obviously resonated with those pursuing what Blair described during the 2001 election campaign as a ‘radical, modern, social democratic’ agenda. Indeed, as Marquand (1997: 78–9) conceded after Labour’s 1997 landslide victory, ‘modernisers’ like Blair had gone some way to resolving his ‘dilemma’. The Progressive Dilemma is here taken as the exemplar of a wider ‘social democratic’ interpretation of the Labour Party. There are, in truth, few historical accounts that explicitly employ this form of analysis – but only because it is such an insidious a part of many leading authorities’ ‘common-sense’ view of the party (see in particular, Crewe and King 1995: 3–26 and Williams 1979). Marquand’s work is worthy of close attention, not the least because he is rare in foregrounding many of that tradition’s most significant assumptions and he employs them in a particularly lucid manner. 9 The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132208491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘What kind of people are you?’","authors":"L. Black","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129952139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Labourism’ and the New Left","authors":"Madeleine Davis","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129299802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to study the Labour Party","authors":"C. Hay","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121062301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective","authors":"D. Coates, L. Panitch","doi":"10.7765/9781526137456.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137456.00011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197390,"journal":{"name":"Interpreting the Labour Party","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128259713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}