THE THIRD WAY TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
For Sophie and Alissa
The Third Way Transformation of Social Democracy
Normative claims and policy initiatives in the 21st century
Edited by
OLIVER SCHMIDTKE
University of Victoria, Canada
First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
Oliver Schmidtke
PART I:
ORGANIZING THE ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION THE INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGE FOR THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEFT?
Peter A. Hall
Saskia Sassen
PART II:
WHAT IS THE THIRD WAY? THE ROLE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC REGIMES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Stephen Driver and Luke Martell
Vincent Della Sala
Serenella Sferza
PART III:
CULTURE, IDEAS AND POLITICAL SPACE WHERE DOES THE THIRD WAY COME FROM AND WHERE WILL IT GO?
Michael Th. Greven
Frank Unger
Warren Magnusson
PART IV:
THIRD WAY POLITICS IN PRACTICE NEW POLITICAL SPACES FOR DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL?
Roger Keil
Thomas O. Hueglin
Vincent Della Sala received his doctorate at the University of Oxford and is currently an associate professor of political science at Carleton University. He specializes in comparative political economy in advanced industrialized states, European politics and the politics and government of the European Union. His articles on Italian politics, political economy and constitutionalism have appeared in journals such as West European Politics and Journal of Common Market Studies. Della Salas current research focuses on the impact of greater economic interdependence on domestic state structures and the political economy of legalized gambling.
Stephen Driver received his B.A. from Sheffield and his M.A. and D.Phil. at Sussex. He teaches government and politics in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He is currently the convenor for the Social Policy Degree Programme. He was previously lecturer in sociology at Sussex University. Apart from his work on New Labour, Driver has done research for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on the New Media in Britain and is presently working on a study of church support for families, funded by the Lord Chancellors Department.
Michael Th. Greven received his doctoral degree at Bonn University and is currently a professor of political science at the University of Hamburg. His fields of expertise include modern political theory, theory of democracy, political sociology, and politics in Germany and the European Union. The present focus of Grevens research is on current problems and the future of democracy in political societies. His most recent books are: Die politische Gesellschaft (1999); Kontingenz and Dezision (2000); and Democracy Beyond the State (ed. with Louis Pauly, 2000).
Peter A. Hall is Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University where he is also a Harvard College Professor and Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government. He holds a M.Phil. from Oxford University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. He is the author of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France (1986), and has published over fifty articles in books and journals on European politics and policy making. He has edited or co-edited numerous books including The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations (1989), Developments in French Politics I (1990) and II (2001) and Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001). Hall is currently working on a series of essays about the methodologies of political science that explores the processes of social and economic adjustment in Europe during the postwar era.
Thomas O. Hueglin is a professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. His Ph.D. is from St. Gall University in Switzerland, and his Habilitation is from Konstanz University in Germany. His research focuses on the history of political thought, comparative federalism, globalization and the European Union. He is currently writing a book on comparative federal systems. Recent publications include Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World (1999) and From Constitutional to Treaty Federalism (Publius, Fall 2000). `Federalism at the Crossroads is forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. He also co-edited Subsidiaritat als rechtliches und politisches Ordungsprinzip in Kirche, Staat und Gesellschaft (special issue 20 of Rechtstheorie, 2002). His home page can be visited at http://www.w1u.ca/wwwpolsc/facpages/hueglin/index.htm.
Roger Keil received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt in 1992. He is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto. His main research interests are in urban politics and governance and urban ecology in major internationalized cities. Much of his work has been empirically based on world city formation and urban governance restructuring in Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Toronto. Among his publications are Los Angeles: Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles (1998) and Political Ecology (ed. with D. Bell, P. Penz and L. Fawcett, 1998). He is currently completing a book on urban environmental policy making in Los Angeles and Toronto (with G. Desfor). Keil is a member of the International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA). His website can be found at www.yorku.ca/keil.
Warren Magnusson is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. A specialist in the political theory of local government and urban politics, he received his doctorate from Oxford in 1978. Among his publications are The Search for Political Space: Globalization, Social Movements and the Urban Political Experience (1996), and A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound