Institusion
Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta
Author
Ona, Krisantus Tobias Ghena
Subject
H Social Sciences (General)
Datestamp
2016-05-16 07:43:05
Abstract :
At the end of 90s, political and social scientists pointed on the fall of Soviet as the end of communism. They justified liberalism as the end of history. Then, the rise of social democrats movements around the world messed up those ?the end of history?arguments. One of the
movements was Gerhard Schröder?s and Sozialdemokratische
Partei Deutschlands(SPD) victory onthe Germangeneral election in 1998. Schröder, who was a social democrat and pointed himself as a reformer, introduce ed the third way as his political and economic ideology to pull German out of crisis. Due to his reform
on welfare programs, Schröder was in charge to change the future of German welfare
state. Things were just easy to say, but Schröder was pushed to extricate his positi on as Chancellor
due to protests and demonstrations. At the end of 2005, after a long
economic recession and unemployment distress, Schröder ended his office role as a Germany Chancellor. As Schröder ended his office period,third way was also ended in German.
Keywords: the third way, Gerhard Schröder