The Progressive Manifesto: New Ideas for the Centre-Left
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Book Description
This book seeks to develop a new agenda for the centre-left. During the 1990's, left of centre governments or coalitions came into power in the US, many of the European Union countries, and in societies elsewhere too. The modernisation of social democracy was crucial to these successes - all centre-left parties that came to power revised and updated their traditional doctrines. Recent years have seen the widespread return of the right to power, coupled to the prominence of far right parties in many countries.The centre-left must respond. Third-way thinking was a major source of ideological renewal, but today we must move beyond the political formulae of the 1990s.The authors represented in this volume show how. The papers included were prepared for the summit of progressive leaders held in July 2003. All have been written by leading experts in their fields. In his extensive introduction, Anthony Giddens draws the threads together to sketch a powerful and novel left-centre political approach.
About the Author
Anthony Giddens, a British sociologist, was educated at Hull, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge, and is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His interests have been varied, but they tend to focus on questions related to the macro-order. Much of his theoretical writing deals with stratification, class, and modernity. Although he has concentrated on dynamic issues of social structure, he has also examined how social psychological concerns are part of this broader order of human relations.
The Progressive Manifesto : New Ideas for the Centre-Left,Anthony Giddens,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,0745632955,Business/Economics,Capitalism,Globalization,International Relations - General,Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Public Policy - Social Policy,Right and left (Political scie,Right and left (Political science),Socialism,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Political science & theory,Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
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