This follow-up volume to the same editors' highly-acclaimed New Labour in Government provides a systematic assessment of Blair's first term and the continuities and changes into his second. Bringing together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities in a tightly-edited format, it places particular emphasis on the evolution of New Labour's political performance, policy and statecraft set in its historical, ideological and organizational context.

STEVE LUDLAM is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield. MARTIN J. SMITH is Professor and Head of Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.