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As Good as Policy Gets
Author(s) -
TAYLOR MATTHEW,
ROBERTS CARYS
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12107
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , mainstream , commission , general election , social justice , political science , political economy , law and economics , law , sociology , public administration , politics
Abstract In June 2014, the think tank IPPR published a report, The Condition of Britain , widely seen as important source material for Labour as the party geared up for the 2015 General Election. This is an echo of another report—that of the Commission on Social Justice, published in 1994—which also made an important contribution to the thinking of Labour in opposition. A comparison between the two documents provides insights into the evolution of mainstream progressive thought over the past twenty years.