It became the theoretical foundation for the transformation of Britain's Labour Party at the end of the 1990s, and also influenced a number of social democratic parties, including those in Germany and Eastern Europe. In Asia, this concept has been given more serious consideration since the regional financial crisis rocked confidence in the market mechanism.
九○年代末，第三條路的理念，成為英國工黨轉型的理論基礎，也影響許多國家的社會民主黨，包括德國與部分東歐國家；甚至在亞洲金融風暴之後，部份對市場經濟原本深信不移的國家，也開始討論。