Winning back the center (ePub)

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Whatever their differences of character and the differences of the
political systems are, William Clinton and Tony Blair are joined at
the hip as energetic parishioners of the so-called Third way politics.
Both restructured and repositioned their parties by breaking with
their party's old style policies. New Labour and New Democrats both
meant a clear cut from their parties political past. With a new
agenda and new politics and last but not least a new and a well
organized party machine rallied behind them, both succeeded in
taking back the power after many years of opposition. But to what
political price?
In order to win back the political center Bill Clinton and Tony Blair
made significant strategically policy shifts that parted with their
parties old-style liberal/ socialist 1paths to more business friendly
and social conservative policies.
In this paper a comparison and analysis of the political "Third way
politics" in the United States of America and Great Britain shall be
made. The emphasis is on how and why these politics were adopted
and whether they ultimately succeeded.