Quali basi per il modello democratico del New Labour? Matrice e sviluppo della società civile

This essay looks at the background of New Labour in order to provide a conceptual framework of some core issues in Uk’s recent political life. Chiefly, civil society will be considered. By linking Giddens’ Third Way to the tradition of Ethical Socialism and to T.H. Marshall’s account of «social citizenship», this paper clears out some rarely highlighted preconditions of New Labour’s political model, on the basis of a critical outline. This construal, focusing on New Labour’s relation to both communitarism and individualistic rationalism, enables a fresh reading of some of its key policies.