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This book has addressed two questions: Does New Labour offer a genuine future for progressive politics? Is there a new and coherent model of progressive governance emerging in the advanced capitalist world which New Labour shares with social democrats elsewhere in Europe and with liberals in the US? Let us now try to draw together some provisional conclusions from the foregoing discussion.
The crisis consists … in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.1
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Fritz W. Scharpf, Employment and the Welfare State: a Continental Dilemma, MPIFG Working Paper 97/7, July 1997, Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. The Green Party has championed eco-taxes as a way to stabilize and reduce pension contributions across all sectors, and the Schroeder government introduced them in 1999.
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White, S., Giaimo, S. (2001). Conclusion: New Labour and the Uncertain Future of Progressive Politics. In: White, S. (eds) New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554573_16
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