Great Britain

No longer a great power, Britain is facing new foreign and domestic challenges. Concentrating on putting Britain into its broad historical context and examining specific contemporary policy questions in four areas - foreign, economic, social welfare and social regulatory (morality) policy, this book provides an analysis of the 1997-2001 New Labour government, including the Third Way and constitutional reform programme as well as policies toward the European Union. This edition provides an interpretation of British politics, and explores a country undergoing a critical transition. Using a comparative public policy approach, this book surveys British policy, institutions and political behaviour since World War II. The author analyzes the challenges facing Britain and the likely governmental responses in areas ranging from foreign policy to constitutional change. In addition to examining the usual domestic policies of the economy and social welfare, Donley Studlar also looks at non-economic regulation of individual behaviour and group relations - especially as applied to women and other political minorities.
Studlar assesses the recent and probable future course of British politics at a crucial time in Britain's development.