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Beech and Lee provide a definitive guide to the coalition´s first year in office. Offering compelling insights into their policy agenda, its chances of success, and a thought-provoking analysis of how the coalition government will affect the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour long-term.

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Foreword; Rt. Hon. Sir M. Rifkind MP PART ONE: THE COALITION IN THE MAKING ´We Are All in This Together´: The Coalition Agenda for British Modernization; S. Lee What is The Legacy of New Labour?; R. Prabhakar The Formation of The Coalition; M. Stuart PART TWO: COALITION POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE No Plan B: The Coalition Agenda for Cutting The Deficit and Rebalancing The Economy; S. Lee The Con-Lib Agenda for Education: Learning the Hard Way?; S. Griffiths The Emerging Blue (and Orange) Health Strategy: Continuity or Change?; R. M. Page Welfare Reform and Coalition Politics in the Age of Austerity; S. Driver Vote Blue, Go Green, What´s a Bit of Yellow in Between?; J. Connelly The Con-Lib Agenda for Home Affairs; J. Benyon The Con-Lib Agenda for the ´New Politics´ and Constitutional Reform; P. Norton The Con-Lib Coalition Agenda for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; A. Aughey PART THREE: COALITION POLICIES ABROAD The Con-Lib Agenda for National Security and Strategy; C. Martin The Con-Lib Agenda for Foreign Policy and International Development; R. Vickers The Con-Lib Agenda for Europe; P. Lynch PART FOUR: A COALITION BUILT TO LAST? A Leap of Faith and a Leap in the Dark: the Impact of Coalition on the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats; T. Bale & E. Sanderson-Nash The End of New Labour? The Future for the Labour Party; K. Hickson A Tale of Two Liberalisms; M. Beech

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"...the acclaimed edited book by Simon Lee and Matt Beech The Cameron Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity... make(s) plentiful references to traditional issues such as tax, immigration, crime and Europe, and the term ´modernisation´..." - Timothy Heppell, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 18:3-4, 534-535

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