Public Nightmares and Communitarian Dreams

This chapter examines the break-up of the welfare state as a process that involved a crisis of representation. In particular, social democratic images of the public and their embodiment in the organizational regimes of welfare bureau-professionalism were dislocated by the New Right's attack on the welfare state. The chapter argues that the attempt to reinvent the public's relationship to social welfare through the couplet of managerialism and consumerism created an impoverished conception of the public realm. Communitarianism has been presented as a response to this impoverishment. However, both lessons from history and the contemporary inflections of community suggest that communitarianism needs to be seen as an attempt to resolve the 'crisis of the social' in social welfare in regressive directions

Communitarianism · Liberalism · Managerialism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social policy · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration

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