Winning back the center

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.