Response

Abstract

All three papers hedge their bets on the question whether Blair advanced social democracy. No clear-cut answer emerges from the papers. In part this is due to the slippery concept of social democracy and the nature of Mr Blair. The pragmatic Mr Blair delivered some programmes for the social democrats and something for the neoliberals. The Third Way was about combining the benefits of statism and collective choice with those of the market. It will not bother him that his legacy is invoked as well as attacked by both social democrats and neoliberals.