Communitarianism - Politics, Society and Public Policy

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Henry Tam''s Communitarianism brings different strands of communitarian thought together into a critical synthesis, at the centre of which is the ideal of inclusive communities based on the three principles of mutual responsibility, cooperative enquiry, and citizen participation. Tam shows how communitarian ideas can be applied in practice, addressing key problems in social, economic, and political life, with case studies from the state, business, and voluntary sectors to demonstrate how we can more effectively respond to the major problems facing society. With key pedagogical features including a timeline of the emergence of key communitarian ideas, diagrams illustrating conceptual differences relating to communitarian, authoritarian and individualist thinking, and a selection of global case studies and further readings, this is the authoritative guide to the theory and practice of Communitarianism.

About the author

Henry Tam has been Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and Head of Civil Renewal in the UK Government. He is the author of several books including Communitarianism (1998), Time to Save Democracy (2018), and Whose Government is it? (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Henry Tam, Tam Henry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781350422391
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42239-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Political science and theory, History: theory and methods