High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Third Way refers to various political positions which try to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies. Third Way approaches are commonly viewed from within the first- and second-way perspectives as representing a centrist reconciliation between capitalism and state socialist command economy. Less often, the phrase "Third Way" is used to refer to Distributism. Third Way policies were enacted in the 1980s in Australia by the Hawke/Keating Labor governments. The most recent prominent examples are the Clinton administrations in the United States as well as 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Labour Party (New Labour) governments of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Gerhard Schroder's "Neue Mitte" in Germany the Liberal Party government of Canada under Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, the Australian Labor Party under Kevin...