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British Politics in the Global Age: Can Social Democracy Survive?
by Joel Krieger
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1999-11-04)
ISBN: 0195215745
EAN: 9780195215748
Dewy Decimal #: 320.94109049
Hardcover: 232 pages
SKU: H1553
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In British Politics in the Global Age, Joel Krieger provides an in-depth study of New Labour's model of government and the political challenges it faces. Krieger analyzes the interaction of global processes and domestic politics from the organization of production to the formation of class, ethnic, and gender-based identities. The book considers how these processes compromise sovereignty, complicate national identities, forge new political agendas, create electoral volatility, and complicate the art of politics. Krieger develops an original framework for analyzing New Labour in comparison to three models of social democracy and places the British case firmly in the context of alternative national models and European debates. Employing an approach with potential applications well beyond the UK, the book reconceptualizes globalization and introduces the concept "modular politics" to explain the context-dependent processes of identity formation that shape--and potentially destabilize--contemporary politics. Thoroughly researched and clearly argued, British Politics in the Global Age is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full ramifications of New Labour for both Europe and the United States.
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Customer Reviews
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Melodramatic much? -- reader left without clear vision
Rating  (2)
Date: 2002-11-08
Krieger's British Politics in the Global Age, is not much more than an incoherant portrait of modern UK politics. Krieger goes into an ill-advised depiction of several differnt forms of social democracy, while at the same time attempting to address the problems of contemporary Labour Party politics. One is left by the end of the work confused and disoriented about what Krieger's exact position is after having been bombarded with chapter after chapter of incoherant drivel. If you really wish to gain some idea about what Krieger is actualy trying to get across to the reader -- just reader the outline in the back of the work, anything more is purely a waste of time.
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