This title was first published in 2002. Designed to cover a broad range of aspects, this text provides fresh understanding of the transformation of social democratic politics in a globalizing world.

Contents: Introduction: Transforming the social democratic left: the challenges to third way politics in the age of globalization, Oliver Schmidtke. Organizing the Economy in the Age of Globalization - The Unsurmountable Challenge for the Social Democratic Left?: The comparative political economy of the 'Third Way', Peter A. Hall; The state and globalization, Saskia Sassen. What is the Third Way? The Role of Social Democratic Regimes in Comparative Perspectives: Third ways in Britain and Europe, Stephen Driver and Luke Martell; D'Alema's dilemmas: third way, Italian style, Vincent Della Sala; The third way in France: tertium non datur?, Serenella Sferza. Culture, Ideas and Political Space: Where Does the Third Way Come From and Where Will it go?: Still a third way, or, at least any alternatives to world capitalism? some remarks on the fundamental split between the intellectual critique of capitalism and real political powers, Michael Th. Greven; From the 'anti-revisionist left' to the 'new centre': reflections on the ancestry of 'modernized' social democracy, Frank Unger; Beyond the politics of nostalgia, Warren Magnusson. Third Way Politics in Practice - New Political Spaces for Democratic Renewal?: Urban governance restructuring: a template for new progressive politics or the endrun of neoliberal urbanism?, Roger Keil; Federalism and the third way: possibilities for post-parliamentary democratic governance, Thomas O. Hueglin; Index.