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Third Way (third + way)
Selected AbstractsThe Contingency Legal Aid Fund: A Third Way to Finance Personal Injury LitigationJOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 1 2003David Capper Northern Ireland missed out on all the major reforms to civil justice which took place in England and Wales during the 1980s and 1990s. However the reform movement is now gathering pace and a Legal Services Commission is due to start work in the spring of 2003. This article considers how personal injury claims might be funded. The government wants to introduce conditional fee agreements (CFAs) but widespread hostility expressed by many interested parties led to the consideration of an alternative funding system, the Contingency Legal Aid Fund (CLAF). The relative merits of CFAs and CLAF are considered in the following pages. [source] Still a Third Way for EuropeNEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2000Anthony Giddens [source] Australian Antecedents of the Third WayPOLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2002Chris Pierson New Labour theorists have been prone to identify American New Progressivism as the proximate source of ,third way' ideas. In this article we argue that, if the focus is on the governing practice rather than on the naming of a governing orientation, a case can be made for seeing Australian Labor in government from 1983 to 1996 as a progenitor of third way thinking and as a specific source of New Labour policy development in a number of areas. Taking Stuart White's account of the main dimensions of third way programmatic realignment as our guide, we discuss the success of the Hawke/Keating Labor governments in reducing the direct provider role of state, developing new forms of collective provision, reforming the tax system, making social policy more employment-friendly and creating the institutions of an asset-based egalitarianism. We conclude by pointing out that, whilst there are many common themes in Australian Labor practice and New Labor rhetoric, and some evidence of specific policy transfer from one to the other, a plausible case can also be made for seeing many of the policy initiatives of the Hawke/Keating era as a reworking of an older Australian Labor tradition of regulatory state activism. [source] Social Change, Values and Political Agency: The Case of the Third WayPOLITICS, Issue 1 2004Will Leggett The third way is based on both sociological claims about a changed world, and normative propositions about appropriate conduct within that world. Four types of claim concerning the relationship between social change and political values are identified within third way advocacy. In each case, the degree of political agency implied is assessed. This ranges from a position which minimises the room for political interventions in the face of social change, to one which gives primacy to the role of political values. A successful third way project, or alternative, needs not only to be grounded in contemporary social change, but also to show how to steer it. [source] The Netherlands, the Challenge of Lijst Pim Fortuyn, and the Third WayPOLITICS, Issue 3 2003Ian Bruff The shock 2002 general election result in the Netherlands has provided a wake-up call to those who believed it would withstand the Europe-wide rise of the far right more successfully than others. This article firstly investigates why Lijst Pim Fortuyn performed so well, and suggests that its popularity owes more to its anti-establishment stance than its xenophobic outlook. The second half of the article links the upheavals to normative deficiencies in the ,third way' framework, and concludes that a more distinctive left-of-centre agenda needs to be formulated, both in itself and in relation to containing the far right. [source] The Anglo-American Origins and International Diffusion of the "Third Way"POLITICS & POLICY, Issue 1 2003Donley T. Studlar Although much has been written about the meanings of the "Third Way," a term popularized by Prime Minister Tony Blair in Britain and U.S. President Bill Clinton to characterize their similar approaches to governing, little analysis has been done of the phenomenon of the rapid diffusion of this concept internationally. Although the Democratic Leadership Council used the term first in the United States in 1991, it was decided at a high-level meeting between Clinton and New Labour executive officials in 1997 to popularize the term to describe their common approach to governing. This paper describes both the intellectual and political sources of this concept and how it has spread, not only as a label for its originators, but also to other governments and parties in the world. The test of whether the Third Way becomes recognized as a coherent ideology will be whether, over time, those who advocate it become identified with distinctive, consistent policies. [source] A Third Way in the Race Debate,THE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2006Joshua Glasgow First page of article [source] International Promises and Domestic Pragmatism: To What Extent will the Employment Relations Act 1999 Implement International Labour Standards Relating to Freedom of AssociationTHE MODERN LAW REVIEW, Issue 3 2000Tonia Novitz This paper explores the rhetoric and reality surrounding implementation of international labour standards in the Employment Relations Act 1999. It focuses on UK commitments relating to freedom of association and considers whether the new legislation goes any significant way towards their fulfilment. The paper begins by outlining obligations which arise from a state's membership of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and ratification of ILO Conventions. It then goes on to examine indications that, since the change of government in 1997, there has been a significant shift in UK policy relating to such international obligations. The remainder of the paper examines reforms made by the Employment Relations Act to trade union recognition, protection of strikers from dismissal and prevention of anti-union discrimination. It emerges that the Third Way proposed by the present Labour Government entails a complicated detour from the path of full compliance with ILO standards. [source] The "Transformation" of Governance: New Directions in Policy and PoliticsAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 1 2004John Loughlin The terms transformation and governance are used increasingly in the academic literature but often in a confused way. This article attempts to define both terms. It argues that there are three kinds of transformation: pseudo-change; incremental evolutionary transformation (IET), which is the most common form; and revolutionary transformation (RT). It applies this model of change to three paradigm shifts in developed countries since 1945: the Welfare State; the neo-liberal state; and the so-called Third Way. It argues that each of these paradigms involves a particular dominant mode of governance: statist; pluralist; and network respectively. It examines both the causes and consequences of these transformations for politics and policy. [source] Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2004Chris Howell There has been little systematic analysis of what the ,Third Way' means in the sphere of industrial relations. This paper examines the record of the New Labour government in order to evaluate the distinctiveness, innovation and coherence of its industrial relations policy. It argues that many of the limitations of this policy result from the institutional context within which it was introduced. In comparative perspective, Third Way industrial relations can be thought of as a policy adaptation specific to centre,left governments in weakly co-ordinated liberal market economies. [source] British Social Democracy beyond New Labour: Entrenching a Progressive ConsensusBRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 3 2007Will Leggett Social democrats are seeking a project beyond New Labour's dwindling Third Way. In particular, they have seized on the idea of a ,progressive consensus' as a means of entrenching a deeper, cultural shift in British society on centre-left terms. This article assesses the potential of social democratic responses to New Labour for fulfilling this task. ,Traditional' and ,modernising' perspectives are identified, each of which have a positive and critical variant. The critical-modernising approach emerges with the greatest potential for moving beyond the New Labour project. Critical-modernisers operate on the Third Way's analytical terrain,recognising the still-changing operating environment of the centre-left. However, they seek simultaneously to develop a political narrative that is distinct from the Third Way. In order to achieve this latter objective, the normative heritage of more traditional approaches remains a key resource for critical-modernisers, as they seek to show how more recognisably social democratic themes can resonate with a rapidly changing social context. [source] New Labour's Third Way: pragmatism and governanceBRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 3 2000Michael Temple The article critically examines New Labour's development of the concept of the Third Way. Despite the apparent centrality of ,social democracy' to the Third Way, it is proposed that a more pragmatic approach dominates, in that outputs and not ideology are driving the new agenda of governance under New Labour. This is seen to have its roots in the new ways of working the party has embraced in local governance, where public?,private partnerships have become the norm and a new ethos of public service has emerged. In contrast with the top-down approach to setting output targets favoured by Tony Blair, the Third Way offers the possibility of a more experimental, pragmatic and decentralised decision-making process,and the local governance network (with elected local councils as pivotal and legitimising actors) is presented as the ideal agent to deliver this. [source] Ethics and Foreign Policy: the Antinomies of New Labour's ,Third Way' in Sub-Saharan AfricaPOLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 2 2001Rita Abrahamsen This article explores how New Labour has attempted to implement its ideas about a ,third way' foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Through an examination of British foreign policy practices, we explore whether New Labour has succeeded in finding a ,third way' between traditional views of socialism and capitalism in Africa. In particular, the article focuses on New Labour's attempts to build peace, prosperity and democracy on the African continent. We conclude that although New Labour's claims to add an ,ethical dimension' to foreign policy have succeeded in giving Britain a higher profile in the international arena, the implementation of such a policy is intrinsically difficult. These difficulties in turn arise from the antinomies embodied in New Labour's policy, or more specifically from the tension between the liberal internationalism of the third way and traditional concerns for the national interest, as well as the contradictions inherent in a commitment to both political and economic liberalism. [source] Tightening the net: children, community, and controlTHE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 2 2001Adrian L. James ABSTRACT The recent move to revitalize social democracy in the UK under the New Labour government, explored by Giddens as ,the Third Way', embraces many of Etzioni's ideas on communitarianism. The principles that emerge from these political philosophies, such as the involvement of local communities in policy consultations and implementation, have largely been welcomed as a reflection of the aim of revitalizing civic society in the context of a range of social policies. It is argued, however, that for children, contrary to this general trend, many of these policies represent attempts to increase the social control of children. Their effect has been to restrict children's agency and their rights, rather than to increase their participation as citizens, and thus, in spite of the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children continue to be marginalized. [source] Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2004Chris Howell There has been little systematic analysis of what the ,Third Way' means in the sphere of industrial relations. This paper examines the record of the New Labour government in order to evaluate the distinctiveness, innovation and coherence of its industrial relations policy. It argues that many of the limitations of this policy result from the institutional context within which it was introduced. In comparative perspective, Third Way industrial relations can be thought of as a policy adaptation specific to centre,left governments in weakly co-ordinated liberal market economies. [source] City Building and the Rhetoric of "Readability": Architectural Debates in the New BerlinCITY & COMMUNITY, Issue 1 2008George J.A. Murray Berlin represents an unusual case vis-à-vis the international architectural debate about rebuilding cities. The debate generally takes place between neotraditionalists on the one hand and various avant-gardists on the other. But in Berlin, the main representatives of the first camp are not, for once, members of the New Urbanism movement, nor are they neotraditionalists tout court; they are, at least on their own self-understanding, pioneers of a kind of ,Third Way' between the two extremes of neotraditionalism and avant-gardism. Nevertheless, a closer look at their rhetoric reveals deeper-lying affinities with the cultural conservatism characteristic of New Urbanism: the image of the city that they favor for Berlin is one of clarity, order, permanence, weightiness, etc.,a surprising image, given the city's troubled past. I examine the Architektenstreit ("Architects' Debate") that arose among planners, architects, critics, and others concerning the rebuilding of the central city in Berlin after reunification, and I discuss, in particular, the doctrine of critical reconstruction that has come to dominate this debate. I locate the origins of critical reconstruction's peculiar rhetoric in a longing for stability amidst the perceived flux of modernity. More generally, I argue (contra many commentators on the Architektenstreit) that a debate on the representations and images of the city is not merely a distraction from, but rather an essential element in, the politics of the city. In Berlin today the substitution of culture for politics is particularly manifest. One sometimes has the impression that architectural form is the most important form of political expression (Lepenies, 2003, p. 322).1 [source] A New Modernism or ,Neue Lesbarkeit'?: Hybridity in Georg Klein's LibidissiGERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2002Stuart Taberner Since unification, critics Ulrich Greiner and Frank Schirrmacher, influenced by Karl Heinz Bohrer, have called for a return to a supposedly repressed modernist tradition in which aesthetic transcendence and subjectivity were valued more highly than any moralising agenda. Other editors and writers such as Uwe Wittstock, Martin Hielscher and Matthias Politycki, however, have promoted a so-called ,Neue Lesbarkeit' based on Anglo-American models stressing readability and story-telling. In both cases, the guiding motivation has been the desire to define a space for German writing within the globalised literary market place. Georg Klein's Libidissi presents a model of a possible third way between a form of modernism that would retreat into the ghetto of the German literary tradition and imitation of the Anglo-American mainstream. The present article thus reveals the manner in which Klein's novel plays with hybridity: hybridity of genre and influences insofar as the book alludes to the Anglo-American tradition of the spy novel and hybridity as a means of resisting globalisation and the eradication of local cultures. [source] Corporate social responsibility: A third way?GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 6 2007An interview with Sir Geoffrey Owen Sir Geoffrey Owen has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Management of the London School of Economics since 1996. From 1991 to 1996 he was Director of Business Policy in the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has held various senior positions in the industry sector and spent many years as Industry Correspondent as well as Deputy Editor for the Financial Times. In this interview, he answers 11 questions discussing the context in which corporate social responsibility is becoming a business concern. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Railtrack is Dead , Long Live Network Rail?JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 2 2003Nationalization Under the Third Way This essay offers, by way of an examination of the proposals to reform the railway industry, a case study of the government's attempt to operationalize the third way. That these proposals are consistent with the third way is identified within this essay and yet they would appear to give rise to the de facto renationalization of the railway infrastructure. In accounting for this apparent contradiction in the (third way) means used and the (old-style democracy) ends achieved, it will be argued that this new form of nationalization is consistent with the third way rather than any socialist understanding of the term. To this extent, therefore, New Labour have attempted to reconceptualize the process of nationalization in pursuit of the ,new mixed economy'. [source] Ethics and Foreign Policy: the Antinomies of New Labour's ,Third Way' in Sub-Saharan AfricaPOLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 2 2001Rita Abrahamsen This article explores how New Labour has attempted to implement its ideas about a ,third way' foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Through an examination of British foreign policy practices, we explore whether New Labour has succeeded in finding a ,third way' between traditional views of socialism and capitalism in Africa. In particular, the article focuses on New Labour's attempts to build peace, prosperity and democracy on the African continent. We conclude that although New Labour's claims to add an ,ethical dimension' to foreign policy have succeeded in giving Britain a higher profile in the international arena, the implementation of such a policy is intrinsically difficult. These difficulties in turn arise from the antinomies embodied in New Labour's policy, or more specifically from the tension between the liberal internationalism of the third way and traditional concerns for the national interest, as well as the contradictions inherent in a commitment to both political and economic liberalism. [source] Commentary: Mystagogy, the third wayBIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION, Issue 6 2006Graham R. Parslow No abstract is available for this article. [source] Foreign firms in China: modelling HRM in a toy manufacturing corporationHUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 3 2004Fang Lee Cooke This article reports the study of a large, wholly foreign-owned toy factory in China. It explores whether foreign direct investment (FDI) manufacturing firms in China inevitably operate in a Taylorist fashion, in contrast to the much praised HR model of blue chip multinational corporations (MNCs) in the country, or whether there is a ,third way' in which good HR practices may be adopted on the ground. The article concludes that a more nuanced approach is needed in our study of FDI companies in order to gain a fuller understanding of the institutional and cultural factors at play and of the consequent diversity in the HR and employment practices of FDI firms, instead of being trapped in a simplistic and polarising typological framework of analysis. This study is necessary in light of the growing diversity in the patterns of FDI companies operating in China in terms of their ownership structure, product market, management style and HR strategy, both for managers and for workers. [source] Public (Interest) or Private (Gain)?JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 2 2007The Curious Case of Network Rail's Status This paper develops Whitehouse's 2003 examination of the creation of Network Rail, a case study of New Labour's attempt to operationalize the ,third way'. Significant changes have occurred since 2003 which make Network Rail's position as a private company with private sector debt appear increasingly anomalous. These changes include: the reclassification of the debt of another rail company from private to public, and the introduction of,imputed debt'into public sector debt measurement; new funding arrangements for Network Rail which make it heavily dependent on public support; and important rail regulatory policy changes. The paper analyses these changes, and revisits White-house's conclusions. In particular, this paper challenges Whitehouse's contention that Network Rail's creation led to the de facto renationalization of the railway infrastructure at a reduced public cost. The paper demonstrates that Network Rail is a very expensive mechanism for channelling public money to private companies, and argues that the Labour government's attempt to maintain the company's private sector status as part of its third way approach is ultimately untenable. [source] Ethics and Foreign Policy: the Antinomies of New Labour's ,Third Way' in Sub-Saharan AfricaPOLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 2 2001Rita Abrahamsen This article explores how New Labour has attempted to implement its ideas about a ,third way' foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Through an examination of British foreign policy practices, we explore whether New Labour has succeeded in finding a ,third way' between traditional views of socialism and capitalism in Africa. In particular, the article focuses on New Labour's attempts to build peace, prosperity and democracy on the African continent. We conclude that although New Labour's claims to add an ,ethical dimension' to foreign policy have succeeded in giving Britain a higher profile in the international arena, the implementation of such a policy is intrinsically difficult. These difficulties in turn arise from the antinomies embodied in New Labour's policy, or more specifically from the tension between the liberal internationalism of the third way and traditional concerns for the national interest, as well as the contradictions inherent in a commitment to both political and economic liberalism. [source] | ||||||||||||||||