Professional paper
Community Spirit in Political Cabinets: Rise and Fall of Etzioni's Communitarian Network
Nikola Petrović
Abstract
This paper deals with the attempts of political programs since early 1990s to apply Amitai Etzioni’s ideas of communitarianism and communitarian network. Reasons that have made communitarian ideas popular are also exposed. One of the most important reasons among these is an attempt to theoretically assist the populist rhetoric of Clinton and Blair after Left - Right dichotomy had been abandoned. In addition to this, conditions that have prevented communitarianism from performing a more signifi cant role after its initial outburst are
presented. First such condition is a condemnation of communitarianism as an attempt to deny individual rights, in the context of its constant polemic with liberalism. The paper tried to fi nd out what conditions would make communitarianism popular today, ten years after its peak. Finally, there is also a short overview of the history of communitarianism and of its connections with some sociological theories.
Keywords
communitarianism; community; liberalism; populism; political parties
Hrčak ID:
4456
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2006.
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