The Ambiguities of the Third Way

@inproceedings{White2001TheAO,
  title={The Ambiguities of the Third Way},
  author={Stuart White},
  year={2001},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:157039317}
}
What does New Labour stand for? What is its ambition for British society? What is the public philosophy in terms of which it seeks to mobilize activists and citizens and how does this public philosophy differ from that of the right? These questions are posed by many political commentators, both in Britain and abroad. The puzzle to which they point, however, is one that is not confined to external commentators, but is to a great extent shared by many supporters and perhaps even members of the… 
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