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Germany after the Millennium: Discourses and strategies of restructuring: redefining the role of the state

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  • Guido Felhoölter
  • Ronald Noppe

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The German discourse on the future role of the state is currently at the turn of the millennium is dominated by the joint paper by Tony Blair and Gerhard Schro¨der, ‘Europe: The Third Way/Die Neue Mitte’ (Blair & Schroüder 1999). Using the crisis of the post‐war Fordist mode of regulation as a background, various concepts of the restructuring of the State and society are discussed. This paper intends to show that the prevailing dominant social democratic restructuring discourse is rooted in a number of important elements in preceding conservative and neo‐liberal discourses about the future of society and the State. The notion of desolidarisation is identified as the common denominator of conservative and neo‐liberal approaches as well as the ‘Third Way’ (Neue Mitte). To cope with growing social inequality it is argued that only a new European political project that re‐animates solidarity and sustainability is viable.

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  • Guido Felhoölter & Ronald Noppe, 2000. "Germany after the Millennium: Discourses and strategies of restructuring: redefining the role of the state," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 91(3), pages 237-247, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:91:y:2000:i:3:p:237-247
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00113
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