Subject(s): Welfare state -- Socialism -- Politics and government -- policy context and concepts -- Modern challenges to the welfare state and the antecedents of the third way, Welfare philosophy , Third way or several -- Policy areas, goals and mechanisms -- Modernizing the state: New style of governance, Left and labour market policy reforms in Britain, France and Germany , Policy reflection, Changing conceptions of family and gender relations in European welfare states and the third way -- Conflicts and challenges -- Third ways social investment state ,Implications of third way social policy for inequality , social cohesion and citizenship , New labour and social policy