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The Global Third Way Debate

ISBN: 978-0-745-62742-7

March 2001

Polity

448 pages

Description
Left-of-centre governments are currently in power in many countries. In greater or lesser degree, all have moved away from traditional doctrines and policies of the left, recognizing 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.

Anthony 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.

This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with the future of progressive politics. It provides perhaps the most comprehensive and integrated account to date of core developments in leftist political thinking.

About the Author
Anthony Giddens is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was formerly Professor of Sociology and Fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge.
Features
1. Anthony Giddens is the leading contributor to the world-wide discussion about third way politics. This book provides a vital source book to go alongside The Third Way and The Third Way and its Critics.

2. Unlike most contributions to the third way debate the book has a strong global emphasis, with contributions drawn from many parts of the world.

3. The most thorough-going and far-reaching work on the third way yet to appear.

4. Includes a substantial new introduction by Anthony Giddens