Beyond Left and Right: Can the Third Way Deliver a Reinvigorated Social Democracy?
Beyond Left and Right: Can the Third Way Deliver a Reinvigorated Social Democracy?
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超越左派和右派：第三条道路能否重振社会民主主义？
DOI：
10.1163/156916306779155162
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
S. Williams
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作者：
S. Fudge;S. Williams
安东尼·吉登斯的著作代表了当代社会和政治理论，这些理论将新自由主义全球秩序视为进步的范式。吉登斯关于反身现代化和第三条道路优点的理论论点不仅在学术界，而且更重要的是在政治圈内产生了巨大的影响力：支持了前克林顿政府，施罗德的社会民主党和新工党政府的政策。然而，本文认为，结构化-理论的基础吉登斯的社会学采取的世界-是固有的缺陷，是不足以占许多真实的问题的权力和不平等，许多人面临着在当今世界。因此，有人认为，在挪用这种有缺陷的人类行为的社会学解释的核心原则，第三条道路所提倡的新工党服务合法化，而不是规范经济全球化的结构原则。虽然本文承认吉登斯和布莱尔关于当代世界的现实和围绕现代化项目的不确定性所假设的许多论点，但通过贝克的工作和对法国和瑞典福利制度的一些差异的探索，它试图问，通过布莱尔/吉登斯模式必然是重振社会民主的政治蓝图。
The work of Anthony Giddens is indicative of much contemporary social and political theory which posits the new neo-liberal global order as the paradigm of progress. Giddens' theoretical arguments, concerning reflexive modernisation and the virtues of the third way, have become hugely influential, not only in academia but, more significantly, within political circles: underpinning, among others, the former Clinton administration, Schroder's Social Democrats and the policies of the New Labour government. This paper argues however that structuration — the theory which underpins Giddens' sociological take on the world — is inherently flawed and is inadequate in accounting for many of the real issues of power and inequality that many individuals face in today's world. As such, it is argued that, in appropriating the core principles of this flawed sociological interpretation of human behaviour, the third way promoted by New Labour serves to legitimize rather than to regulate the structuring principles of economic globalization. While this paper acknowledges many of the arguments postulated by Giddens and Blair regarding the realities of the contemporary world and the uncertainties surrounding the modernization project, through the work of Beck and an exploration of some of the differences in the French and Swedish welfare regimes, it seeks to ask whether the concept of the third way that has been developed through the Blair/Giddens model is necessarily the political blueprint through which to reinvigorate social democracy.