TY - JOUR

T1 - Beyond the Third Way: the science of complexity and the politics of choice.

AU - Geyer, Robert R.

N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Politics and International Studies

PY - 2003/5/1

Y1 - 2003/5/1

N2 - Focusing on the work of Anthony Giddens, this article reviews his vision of the Third Way and argues that it reflects a new and fundamental ‘complexity’ shift within the social sciences. His ability to partially recognise and integrate this shift into his thinking gives the Third Way much of its power and coherence. However, his unwillingness to accept the shift's full implications and his determination to find the one new way for the left blinds him to its more contingent and complex implications. By coming to terms with the development of complexity theory in the natural and social sciences, this article will attempt to go beyond the Third Way and argue that there is not one, two or three ways, but hundreds.

AB - Focusing on the work of Anthony Giddens, this article reviews his vision of the Third Way and argues that it reflects a new and fundamental ‘complexity’ shift within the social sciences. His ability to partially recognise and integrate this shift into his thinking gives the Third Way much of its power and coherence. However, his unwillingness to accept the shift's full implications and his determination to find the one new way for the left blinds him to its more contingent and complex implications. By coming to terms with the development of complexity theory in the natural and social sciences, this article will attempt to go beyond the Third Way and argue that there is not one, two or three ways, but hundreds.

U2 - 10.1111/1467-856X.00105

DO - 10.1111/1467-856X.00105

M3 - Journal article

VL - 5

SP - 237

EP - 257

JO - The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

JF - The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

SN - 1467-856X

IS - 2

ER -