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New Labour’s citizens: activated, empowered, responsibilized, abandoned?

The Open University, john.clarke{at}open.ac.uk

New Labour has paid considerable attention to citizenship. In this paper I explore the different ways in which citizens have been addressed and affected by New Labour policies, concentrating on four processes: activation, empowerment, responsibilization and abandonment. I argue that these different processes are not just the effect of looking at New Labour from different perspectives. Rather they need to be seen as linked in a political and governmental project that seeks to construct the unity of the nation and manage its internal diversity.

Key Words: citizenship • difference • nation • New Labour

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 447-463 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305057024


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