Preface. 1. Socialism and After. The death of socialism. Old-style social democracy. The neoliberal outlook. The doctrines compared. The recent debates. Structures of political support. The fate of social democracy. 2. Five Dilemmas. Globalisation. Individualism. Left and right. Political agency. Ecological issues. Third way politics. 3. State and Civil Society. Democratising democracy. The question of civil society. Crime and community. The democratic family. 4. The Social Investment State. The meaning of equality. Inclusion and exclusion. A society of positive welfare. Social investment strategies. 5. Into the Global Age. The cosmopolitan nation. Cultural pluralism. Cosmopolitan democracy. The European Union. Market fundamentalism on a world scale. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
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Anyone interested in fresh approaches to such questions will have
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
"Tony Giddens, allegedly Tony Blair's favourite intellectual, has
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pulled it off, insisting that rather than being beyond left and
right, it is part of the left, the renewal of social democracy.
This book could be decisive in persuading the Blairites that they
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political intervention." Will Hutton, Editor-in-Chief, the
Observer
"Tony Giddens has made the most significant contribution yet to
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of the Atlantic." Ian Hargreaves, formerly Editor of New Statesman
and The Independent
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the author puts forward an intellectual defence of Tony Blair's
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"Anthony Giddens has earned a considerable reputation among social
scientists over the past three decades as a theorist. Though
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