The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979–97

af Christopher (Lecturer in Politics and History) Massey

Offering a vital recasting of the modernisation of the Labour Party, this book sheds new light on the Party’s years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997. Christopher Massey traces the major organisational changes across these eighteen years, arguing that Labour’s organisational modernisation fundamentally altered its internal structures, policy-making pathways and constitution. Beginning with the situation inherited by Labour’s leadership in the early 1980s, Massey traces Neil Kinnock’s quest... (Læs mere)