Colin Hay Knihy

Focusing on the modernization of the British Labour Party, this book offers a systematic assessment of its evolution following the significant electoral victory in 1997. It evaluates the political and economic strategies that shaped New Labour, providing insights into the party's transformation and its implications for British politics. The analysis highlights key themes of governance, policy changes, and the broader socio-political context that influenced the party's direction during this pivotal period.

Focusing on the concept of political legacies, this book seeks to clarify and operationalize the term for better understanding and research. It defines legacies as remnants of the past influencing the present, emphasizing their dual nature as causal and counter-factual claims. The authors advocate for a multi-dimensional approach to assess political legacies, addressing theoretical, analytical, and methodological issues. The discussion is enriched by examples from Thatcherism, illustrating how these concepts can be applied to existing literature.

In "Civic Capitalism," Colin Hay and Anthony Payne critique the Anglo-liberal growth model and propose a new framework for capitalism that prioritizes social, economic, and environmental sustainability. They advocate for a governance model where the state serves the people, promoting collective goods, equity, and social justice.

This book provides a timely warning of the dangers still present and building in the global economic system, whose frailty was exposed by the global financial crisis, and the Eurozone crisis it spawned. The contributors to this volume draw on SPERI’s work on the political economy of growth, stagnation, austerity and crisis, and placing each in the context of the wider environmental crisis.

This book analyses the changing nature of the British economy and the consequences of Brexit upon its place within the European economic space. The overhang from the global financial crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the political negotiation of prolonged economic downturn and now the spectre of ‘Brexit’ provide the backdrop for various forms of capitalist restructuring designed to restore competitiveness and prosperity. This re-structuring has clear implications for existing European growth models, the structural imbalances and inequalities which characterise the British economy, the fortunes of the City of London and competing financial districts internationally, and the prospective strategies of progressive politics in this context. Adopting a broadly critical political economy lens – which gives analytical weight to the relationship between economic and political dynamics – the book will draw on the research of eminent scholars to assess divergence in the foundations of economic competitiveness and their social repercussions.

Blending an analysis of individual nation states, this book examines critical issues that confront them all, and addresses them comparatively. It takes account of both the national and transnational factors that affect and are affected by politics in Europe, like European integration and globalisation.

An original and illuminating analysis of current trends in contemporary politics. A brilliantly written text which is likely to become a minor classic in the field. Examines and explains current levels of disengagement and apathy towards politics and politicians.

Broad-ranging in its coverage and truly international in scope, this major new text introduces all the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues in relation to globalization, new forms of governance, the changing public/private boundary, changes in the powers and capacities of states, and the differences between advanced liberal democratic and other states. Chapters have been specially commissioned to a common format and are written by an international cast of leading authorities.

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.