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Ideologies / Third-Way Labourite / Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1944 · Germany · Chancellor

Gerhard Schröder

Agenda 2010

The Neue Mitte — Germany's new middle.

Heterodox Third-Way Labourite →
Economic+8
SocialistMarket
Governance+24
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+28
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The chancellor whose 'Neue Mitte' and Agenda 2010 reforms restructured Germany's economy along Third Way lines, splitting his party but reshaping the centre-left.

social

Progressive moderniser of German society.

economic

Liberalised the labour market while keeping the social model.

governance

Reforming, modernising social-democratic state.

Notable for
  • Agenda 2010 labour reforms
  • 'Neue Mitte' centrism
  • Opposed the Iraq War
neue-mitteagenda-2010modernisation
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