The
Falange of
Spain, while allied with the nationalist right side during the
Spanish Civil War and being widely considered to be
far right,[6] presented itself definitively as syncretic.[7]Falangism has attacked both the left and the right as its "enemies", declaring itself to be neither left nor right, but a
Third Position.[8]
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
PresidentBill Clinton.[11] Political scientist
Stephen Skowronek introduced the term "Third Way" into the interpretation of American presidential politics.[12][13][14] 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 Dealliberalism 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".[15]
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^Griffin, Roger (1995). Fascism (paperback). Oxford readers (second printing ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 8, 307.
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^Kallis, Aristotle A. (2002). The Fascism Reader. Routledge. p. 71.
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^Blamires, Cyprian (2006). World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (hardcover) (5 ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. pp. 14, 561.
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^Bastow, Steve; Martin, James (2003). Third Way Discourse. Edinburgh University Press. p. 2.
ISBN978-0748615612. However, what is often missed in many of these discussions is an awareness of the variety of ideologies of the third way that span the twentieth century and traverse the spectrum from left to right.
^Rodney P. Carlisle (general editor). The Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, Volume 2: The Right. Thousand Oaks, California, USA; London, England, UK; New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2005. Pp. 633.
^Fernandez, Paloma Aguilar (August 2002). Memory in Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy (hardcover). Oxford; New York: Berghahn Books.
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^Griffin, Roger (1995). Fascism (paperback). Oxford readers (second printing ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 189.
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^Liow, Joseph Chinyong (2022). "Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) (Philippines)". Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia. pp. 359–390.
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