The global third way debate. /

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Anthony Giddens -- I. One or more third ways?: The third way: an outline / Mark Latham -- Left, right and the third way / Stephen Driver and Luke Martell -- The third ways of social democracy / Wolfgang Merkel -- From Godesberg to the Neue Mitte: the new social democracy in Germany / Thomas Meyer -- A third way for New Zealand? / Paul Dalziel -- Five realities that will shape 21st century US politics / William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck -- II. The welfare state, social policy and inequality: The future of Social Europe: recasting work and welfare in the new economy / Maurizio Ferrera, Anton Hemerijck and Martin Rhodes -- A welfare state for the 21st century / Gosta Esping-Andersen -- Growth, redistribution, and welfare: toward social investment / James Midgley -- Does equality matter? / Ronald Dworkin -- The question of inequality / Anthony Giddens -- Taxation and the future of social protection / Vito Tanzi -- Paths out of poverty: perspectives on active policy / Lutz Leisering and Stephan Leibfried -- the macho penal economy: mass incarceration in the US: a European perspective / David Downes -- The family way: navigating a third way in family policy / Helen Wilkinson -- Work or retirement at career's end? A third way strategy for an ageing population / Anna-Marie Guillemard -- III. Government, democracy and economic power : In government we don't trust / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Five (hypo)theses on democracy and its future / Yves Meny -- How to make a society civil and democracy strong / Benjamin R. Barber -- Stakeholding by any other name: a third way business strategy / Michael Allen -- A new political economy: the importance of social capital / Simon Szreter -- Is there a third way in labour law? / Hugh Collins -- IV. A global third way : the environment, modernity and third way / Michael Jacobs -- An agenda for development for the twenty-first century / Joseph Stiglitz -- The new left viewed from the South / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira -- The third way and international order / Ethan B. Kapstein -- Humanising global capitalism: which way forward? / Michael Edwards -- Regulating globalization? The reinvention of politics / David Held. Includes index