scholarly journals Jørn Henrik Petersen and the origins of the third way: the market turn in the Danish welfare state since the 1970s

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Niklas Olsen ◽  
Jacob Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanna Mik-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
State Power ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Third

This introductory chapter presents the aims and focus of this book: to explore current encounters between citizens and welfare staff and to investigate the effects of principles from the bureaucracy, values from the market and norms from the field of psychology on these welfare encounters. Such norms and principles are understood as immensely powerful, as they urge the use of specific resources/capitals, are agenda setting, and may even be attractive for both the welfare professionals and the citizens. The chapter briefly introduces its key theoretical concepts (‘welfare state’, ‘power’, and ‘professions’) before discussing relevant developments in current welfare states such as The Third Way, the move from government to governance, etc. and how these impact the welfare encounter.

The American Welfare State at Twilight

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID STOESZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Compassionate Conservatism

The triumph of George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election is further evidence of the waning viability of the American welfare state. Since 1980 various strains of conservatism have vied for control of domestic policy through the Republican party, the most recent variant being ‘compassionate conservatism’. Democrats have responded by disavowing their liberal heritage and moving toward the centre. This reflects the replacement of a ‘social model’ with an ‘economic model’ for social policy. The Left can be rejuvenated by adopting three themes for domestic policy: mobility, empowerment and restructuring. These are consistent with the ‘third way’ in social policy, as centrists have advocated in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Democratic Erosion and Political Convergence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Galston
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The West ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Third ◽  
Western Politics ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter discusses the gradual erosion of democracy in world politics, beginning with the rise of the welfare state and the second political convergence of the postwar era—conservative retrenchment. Confronted with resurgent conservatism, reform-minded leaders worked to renovate left-leaning parties and brought the next convergence of Western politics, the Third Way. For some years, international Third Way forces had the wind in their sails, however, the Great Recession ended this era. Across the West, governments struggled to stave off financial collapse, halt the downward slide of output and employment, and restart economic growth. Meanwhile, a populist surge threatens the assumptions and achievements of mainstream politicians and policymakers from the center left to the center-right.

New Labour's post-Thatcherite modernisation project: a Third Way?

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIRIAM DAVID
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Usa

Tony Blair The Third Way: new politics for the new century, pamphlet no. 588, Fabian Society, London, 1998, 20 pp., £3.50.Stephen Driver and Luke Martell, New Labour: politics after Thatcherism, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1998, xii + 210 pp. £45.00, £12.99 (pbk).Anthony Giddens, The Third Way: the renewal of social democracy, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1998, x + 166 pp., £25.00, £7.99 (pbk).Colin Hay, The Political Economy of New Labour: labouring under false pretences?, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1999, xiii + 242 pp. £45.00, £14.99.Martin Powell (ed.), New Labour, New Welfare State? The ‘third way’ in British social policy, The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 1999, ix + 351 pp., £45.00, £18.99.Having just returned from a month in the USA, teaching summer school to graduate students on social and family policy in education, I eagerly read and/or reread these publications to get a renewed sense of politics and policy in Britain today. Whilst I was in the USA I became steeped in discussions of ‘post’ perspectives – post-colonial, post-modern, post-structuralist, post-feminist – on ‘discourses of welfare’ or the welfare state which now may include education and even communitarianism. I found myself longing for a more pragmatic as well as programmatic, or what might be called ‘critical realist’, perspective. So I was not disappointed by having to engage with these four books and the pamphlet, although initially they seemed a long way from my current research interests on ‘family and education’ from a feminist perspective.I have had a very enjoyable, exciting and even exhilarating time reading them. Together they present a most appealing package of accounts of New Labour as we are about to enter the new millennium. One gets the feeling of tremendous political activity and policy action over the last few years with plans and proposals galore for the future. To paraphrase the words of Celine Dionne for the heroine of Titanic ‘It will go on...’

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