Spain The
Falange of
Spain, while allied with the nationalist right side during the
Spanish Civil War and being widely considered to be
far right, presented itself definitively as syncretic.
Falangism has attacked both the left and the right as its "enemies", declaring itself to be neither left nor right, but a
Third Position.
United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the emergence of
New Labour under
Tony Blair and
Gordon Brown was a pitch for the
Third Way, mixing
neoliberal economic policies, such as banking privatization, with
socially progressive policies.
United States In the United States,
Third Way adherents embrace
fiscal conservatism to a greater extent than traditional
social liberals and advocate some replacement of
welfare with
workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for
market solutions to traditional problems (as in
pollution markets), while rejecting pure
laissez-faire economics and other
right-libertarian positions. This style of governing was firmly adopted and partly redefined during the
administration of
President Bill Clinton. Political scientist
Stephen Skowronek introduced the term "Third Way" into the interpretation of American presidential politics. Such presidents undermine the opposition by borrowing policies from it in an effort to seize the middle and with it to achieve political dominance. This technique is known as
triangulation and was used by Bill Clinton and other
New Democrats who sought to move beyond the party's
New Deal liberalism reputation in response to the political realignment of the 1980s. Through this strategy, Clinton adopted themes associated with the
Republican Party, such as fiscal conservatism,
welfare reform,
deregulation and
law and order policies. Famously, he declared in the
1996 State of the Union Address that "the era of big government is over". == Other examples ==