Building new Labour [electronic resource] : the politics of party organisation / Meg Russell.

'New' Labour was defined in part by wide-ranging reforms to the party's internal democracy. These included changes to how candidates and leaders are selected, changes to policy making processes, and a programme of 'quotas' that transformed women's representation in the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Russell, Meg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Context for Reform
  • Selecting Candidates and Leaders: the Battle for One Member One Vote
  • Selection under Blair: the Fall and Rise of One Member One Vote
  • The Quiet Revolution: Women in the Party
  • Making Policy
  • The National Executive Committee
  • Annual Conference
  • Reform Frustrated: The Grassroots
  • Change and the Illusion of Change
  • Democracy and Power in 'New' Labour
  • Timeline
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.