From blue to green and everything in between: Ideational change and left political economy after New Labour

Finlayson, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-349X (2013) From blue to green and everything in between: Ideational change and left political economy after New Labour. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 15 (1). pp. 70-88. ISSN 1369-1481

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Abstract

This article argues that ideational and institutionalist approaches to the study of policy continuity and change should be complemented by research into political ideologies, and with exploration of an ‘intermediate’ public sphere in which there is extensive intra-ideological dispute. Exploring contemporary left-wing debate about political economy in Britain it is shown that ideational change takes place in the context of disputes rooted in ideological tradition, involving the rearrangement of concepts, the emphasising of some and the marginalisation of others. In the present moment that debate is marked by what may be thought of, heuristically, as ‘Keynesian’, ‘Polanyian’, ‘Schumpeterian’ and ‘Schumacherian’ points of reference. Assessing the likelihood of this debate developing into a coherent ‘crisis narrative’ it is shown that the development of the relationship between these poles will be decisive but that at present they stumble over the conceptualisation of ‘equality’ and ‘the state’.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2012 14:41
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:18
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40629
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00512.x

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