New Labour's communitarianisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11432002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Driver (Roehampton Institute London, corresponding author), Luke Martell (University of Sussex) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 52 |
| Pages | 27-46 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/026101839701705202 |
| OpenAlex | W2144275053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article argues that communitarianism can be analysed on different levels—sociological, ethical and meta—ethical—and along different di mensions—conformist—pluralist, more conditional-less conditional, progressive-conservative, prescriptive-voluntary, moral-socioeconomic and individual-corporate. We argue that New Labour's communitarian ism is a response to both neo-liberalism and old social democracy. It is sociological, ethical and universalist rather than particularist on the meta-ethical level. Labour increasingly favours conditional, morally pre scriptive, conservative and individual communitarianisms. This is at the expense of less conditional and redistributional socioeconomic, progress ive and corporate communitarianisms. It is torn between conformist and pluralist versions of communitarianism. This bias is part of a wider shift in Labour thinking from social democracy to a liberal conservatism which celebrates the dynamic market economy and is socially conserva tive
Communitarianism · Conformist · Conservatism · Democracy · Economics · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Philosophy and Ethics
From New Labour to New Conservatism
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The Third Way and beyond
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The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Community development and community renewal
Women's Citizenship in the Time of Activation
Enterprise Theology and Welfare Discourse in the United Kingdom
Social Work, Merit and Ethnic Diversity
Caring for Citizenship
Tough Love
The place of 'place' in theories of poverty
World Futures and Complex Sustainability
UK policy on football supporters’ trusts
At ideological loggerheads? Identifying and clarifying the discursive differences between Blair and Brown on education
Interrogating religion
Hidden Targets, Hidden Harms
Working with Parents in the Youth Justice System
Fair Conditions and Fair Consequences? Exploring New Labour, Welfare Contractualism and Social Attitudes
Continuity and change in the institution of town and country planning
Monitoring adult protection referrals in 10 English local authorities
Managing abuse inquiries
The People's Library and the Electronic Workshop
Professor Macmurray and Mr Blair
The Politics of Regeneration
Practices of citizenship
The political rationality of restorative justice
Citizenship, education and the political discourse of New Labour
It Made Our Eyes Get Bigger
Expectations of support among White British and Asian-Indian older people in Britain
Supporting families? New Labour's communitarianism and the 'rationality mistake
The Restorative Justice Apparatus
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Civic Action and Volunteering
Regional creative industries policy-making under New Labour
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The mainstreaming of the third sector into public policy in England in the late 1990s
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Joined‐Up Services for Young Children and Their Families
Building colleges for the future
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Responsible Participation and Housing
Community cohesion, communitarianism and neoliberalism
Regard between strangers
Popular paradigms and welfare values
New Labour
Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s
The big society
A challenge to liberalism? The communitarianism of the Big Society and Blue Labour
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Vocabularies of citizenship and gender
Joined-Up Government, `Community Safety' and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender `Active Citizens
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Beyond Neoliberalism
Making Space for "Neo-communitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
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Faith communities, communitarianism, social capital and youth civic engagement
The third sector and government in Australia
The Sequestration of Experience
Stakeholder security
Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen
Popular discourse and the ethical deficiency of 'Third Way' conceptions of citizenship
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,43 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |