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The essential communitarian reader / edited by Amitai Etzioni.

Contributor Etzioni, Amitai.

Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1998.

Descriptionxxxix, 323 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Foundations of communitarian liberalism / Philip Selznick. - Community properly understood: a defense of "Democratic Communitarianism" / Robert N. Bellah. - The limits of libertarianism / Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. - A moral reawakening without Puritanism / Amitai Etzioni. - The dangers of soft despotism / Charles Taylor. - Beyond teledemocracy: "America on the line" / James S. Fishkin. - Social justice: a communitarian perspective / Philip Selznick. - A precarious balance: economic opportunity, civil society, and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf. - Rights and responsibilities / Dallin H. Oaks. - "Absolute" rights: property and privacy / Mary Ann Glendon. - Permissible paternalism: in defense of the nanny state / Robert E. Goodin. - Finding a place for community in the First Amendment / Roger L. Conner. - AIDS prevention vs. cultural sensitivity / Ronald Bayer. - A gansta's rights / Roger L. Conner. - A liberal-democratic case for the two-parent family / William Galston. - How therapists threaten marriages / William J. Doherty. - Residential community associations: community or disunity? / Daniel A. Bell. - When redistribution and economic growth fail / Senator Dan Coats. - What makes a good urban park? / Peter Katz. - The loss of public space / Fred Siegel. - Rebuilding urban communities / Senator Bill Bradley. - The libertarian conundrum: why the market does not safeguard civil rights / Alan Wolfe. - Drug abuse control policy: libertarian, authoritarian, liberal, and communitarian perspectives / Mark Kleiman. - Inner-city crime: what the federal government should do / John J. DiIulio, Jr. - A mandate for liberty: requiring education-based community service / Benjamin R. Barber. - Social science finds: "marriage matters" / Linda J. Waite. - Democracy and the politics of difference / Jean Bethke Elshtain. - Pluralism vs. particularism in American education / Diane Ravitch. - Immigration and political community in the United States / Daniel J. Tichenor. - Who killed modern manners? / Judith Martin.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Etzioni, Amitai.
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Social ethics.
Communitarianism.
Liberalism.