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Justifying New Labour Policy

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Authors:
  1. Judi Atkins

    1. Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 1-10

  3. The Context of Justification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Context of Ideology

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 13-29

    3. The Context of Argumentation

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 30-48

    4. The Context of Hegemonic Competition

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 49-68

    5. Towards an Understanding of the Dynamics of Moral Argument in Politics

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 69-77

  4. The Case of New Labour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Ideology of New Labour

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 81-98

    3. New Labour’s Welfare Reforms: The New Deals

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 99-117

    4. Rights and Constitutional Reform: The Human Rights Act of 1998

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 118-137

    5. Community: New Labour’s Policies on Anti-Social Behaviour

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 138-156

    6. Foreign Policy: The Iraq War of 2003

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 157-175

  5. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Judi Atkins
      Pages 176-188

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 189-217
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About this book

An original combination of theoretical innovation and a detailed empirical analysis of the ideas, language and policy of New Labour. Politicians often appeal to moral principles and arguments in their efforts to win support for new policy programmes. Yet the question of how politicians use moral language has until now been neglected by scholars.

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  • Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University, UK

    Judi Atkins

About the author

JUDI ATKINS is Research Officer in the Department of Politics and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, UK. Her research interests include political argumentation and rhetoric, ideology and British politics, and she has published a number of articles in these areas. She is currently working with Alan Finlayson on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on British political speech.

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