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.

Second Term New Labour; S.Ludlam
Re-electing New Labour; C.Pattie
New Labour's Second Term and European Social Democracy; B.Clift
The Control Freaks: New Labour and the Party; E.Shaw
New Labour, 'Vested Interests' and the Union Link; S.Ludlam
A Damascene Conversion? New Labour and Media Relations; B.Franklin
The 'Hybrid State': New Labour's Response to the Challenge of Governance; D.Richards & M.J.Smith
New Labour and the Constitution; M.Flinders
Economic and Welfare Policy; C.Annesley & A.Gamble
New Labour and the Reform of Public Services; R.Prabhakar
Three Faces of New Labour: Principle, Pragmatism and Populism in New Labour's Home Office; N.Randall
Foreign and European Policy; J.Buller
Defining New Labour; M.J.Smith.

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