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Wim Kok — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1938–2018 · Netherlands · Prime Minister

Wim Kok

The Polder model

Shedding ideological feathers.

Heterodox Third-Way Labourite →
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SocialistMarket
Governance+22
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Social+26
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The Dutch union-leader-turned-PM who told his party to shed its 'ideological feathers', pioneering a consensual, employment-focused Third Way in the 1990s.

social

Progressive moderate.

economic

Consensual market reform with strong social protection.

governance

Coalition modernisation of the Dutch centre-left.

Notable for
  • The 'Polder model'
  • Purple coalitions
  • Centre-left modernisation
polder-modelconsensusmodernisation
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