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| | Social Welfare in New Zealand: The Contours of a Christian Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | In New Zealand, Britain, Canada, and the UK the political consensus had adopted much more of a socialist centre until the early 1980s, whereupon the political centre moved rightwards but still remained to the left of the US political centre. |
 | | However, in both Britain and NZ the Labour parties have now recast themselves as Third Way parties of the pragmatic centre-left, who are essentially the same social democratic parties but with a gradualist approach to reform, rather than a radical approach, and a more neo-liberal microeconomic policy. |
 | | In the previous chapters we dealt with NZ political parties with their roots in two distinct strands of political philosophy, in this chapter we shall explore the role of the state, society, and the Church in two contrasting Christian traditions. |
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