The Global Third Way Debate

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by Anthony Giddens

Polity Press

Due/Published April 2001, 448 pages, paper

ISBN 0745627420

Modernizing left of center governments are currently in power in many countries across the world. In greater or lesser degree, all have moved away from traditional doctrines and policies of the left, recognising that left values have to be pursued by different means today. The term 'third way' has become a widely accepted, if controversial, label understood by many modernizing social democrats to refer to these attempts at ideological and policy innovation. The debate that has arisen around these developments is a truly world-wide one, stretching from the US and Europe through to Asia, Australasia and Latin America.

Giddens has been perhaps the foremost contributor to the global third way discussion. In this book he has brought together some of the key contributions from around the world. Articles included cover, among other topics: the development of the third way policies in EU countries; welfare institutions and welfare reforms; economic and social policy; trust, the civic order and government; the strains and stresses of democracy; the regulation of corporate power; ecological modernization; the third way viewed from the South; global governance.

Contents

Introduction: --Anthony Giddens

Part 1: One Or More Third Ways?
1 Mark Latham--The Third Way: An Outline Statement
2 Stephen Driver and Luke Martell--Left, Right And The Third Way
3 Wolfgang Merkel--The Third Ways Of Social Democracy
4 Thomas Meyer--From Godesberg To The Neue Mitte: The New Social Democracy In Germany
5 Paul Dalziel--A Third Way For New Zealand?
6 William A Galston and Elaine C Kamarck--Five Realities That Will Shape 21st Century US Politics

Part 2: The Welfare State, Social Policy and Inequality
7 Maurizio Ferrera, Anton Hemerijck and Martin Rhodes--The Future Of Social Europe: Recasting Work and Welfare In The New Economy
8 Gosta Esping-Anderson--A Welfare State For The 21st Century
9 James Midgley--Growth, Redistribution and Welfare: Toward Social Investment
10 Ronald Dworkin--Does Equality Matter?
11 Anthony Giddens--The Question Of Inequality
12 Vito Tanzi-- Taxation and The Future Of Social Protection
13 Lutz Leisering and Stephen Leibfried--Paths Out Of Poverty: Perspectives On Active Policy
14 David Downes--The Macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration In The US, A European Perspective
15 Helen Wilkinson--The Family Way: Navigating A Third Way In Family Policy
16 Anne-Marie Guillemard--Work Or Retirement At Career's End: A Third Way Strategy For An Aging Population

Part 3: Government, Democracy and Economic Power
-17 Joseph Nye--In Government We Don't Trust
18 Yves Meny--Five (Hypo) Theses On Democracy and Its Future
19 Benjamin Barber--How To Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
20 Mike Allen--Stakeholding By Any Other Name: A Third Way Business Strategy
21 Simon Szreter--A New Political Economy; the Importance Of Social Capital
22 Hugh Collins--Is There A Third Way in Labour Law?

Part 4: A Global Third Way
23 Michael Jacobs--The Environment, Modernity and The Third Way
24 Joseph Stilitz--An Agenda for Development for the Twenty-First Century
25 Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira--The New Left Viewed From the South
26 Ethan B Kapstein--The Third Way and The International Order
27 Michael Edwards--Humanising Global Capitalism: Which Way Forward?
28 David Held--Regulating Globalisation? The Reinvention of Politics