Description
Book SynopsisBlair's community challenges the widely held view that New Labour's policies and approach have reflected or even been influenced by the work of communitarian writers, by comparing party policy and rhetoric directly with their work. -- .
Table of ContentsPart I
Introduction
1. New Labour’s communitarianism: first impressions last
2. New Labour’s communitarianism: where’s the evidence?
Part II
3. New Labour’s ‘communitarian philosophy’
4. ‘The wickedest idea of all is the idea of duty’: John Macmurray on community, society and service
5. Rights, responsibilities and morality: Amitai Etzioni and New Labour
6. The mysterious absence of British communitarians from the discussion of British communitarianism
Part III
7. Community by contract and the myth of New Labour’s communitarianism
Index
