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New Democrats, in the United States politics, was an ideologically centrist faction within the Democratic Party that emerged after the victory of Republican George H. W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election. They were an economically liberal and "Third Way" faction which dominated the party for around 20 years starting in the late 1980s after the US populace turned much further to the political right. They are represented by organizations such as the New Democrat Network and the New Democrat Coalition. ==Origins== After the landslide electoral losses to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, a group of prominent Democrats began to believe their party was out of touch and in need of a radical shift in economic policy and ideas of governance.〔Wayne LeMieux, The Democrats' New Path, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4196-3872-5〕〔John F Harris, The Survivor:Bill Clinton in the White House, Random House, 2005, ISBN 978-0-375-50847-9〕 The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was founded in 1985 by Al From and a group of like-minded politicians and strategists.〔(Al From, Founder of the DLC and New Democrats )〕 They advocated a political "Third Way" as an antidote to the electoral successes of Reaganism.〔〔 The landslide 1984 Presidential election defeat spurred centrist democrats to action, and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was formed. The DLC, an unofficial party organization played a critical role in moving the Democratic Party’s policies to the center of the political spectrum. Prominent Democratic politicians such as former Vice President Al Gore, Vice President Joseph Biden participated in DLC affairs prior to their candidacy for the 1988 Democratic nomination.〔Hale, Jon F. "The Making of the New Democrats." Political Science Quarterly 110, no. 2 (1995): 207-221.〕 The DLC espoused policies that moved the Democratic Party to the center. However, the DLC did not want the Democratic Party to be “simply posturing in the middle.” Thus, the DLC declared their ideas to be “progressive”, and a third way to address the problems of the 1990s. Examples of the DLC’s policy initiatives can be found in ''The New American Choice Resolutions''〔〔"DLC: The New American Choice Resolutions ." Democratic Leadership Council. http://www.dlc.org/ndol_cid211.html?kaid=86&subid=194&contentid=1251. (accessed February 25, 2013).〕 Although the label "New Democrat" was briefly used by a progressive reformist group including Gary Hart and Eugene McCarthy in 1989,〔 〕 the term became more widely associated with the policies of the Democratic Leadership Council, who in 1990 renamed their bi-monthly magazine from ''The Mainstream Democrat'' to ''The New Democrat''.〔 〕 When then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton stepped down as DLC chairman to run for president in the 1992 presidential election, he presented himself as a "New Democrat".〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Democrats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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