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COMMUNITARIAN IDEAS SOLVE PROBLEMS
INNOVATIVE IDEAS THAT BREAK POLITICAL DEADLOCK HAS BEEN THE HALLMARK OF THE COMMUNITARIAN MOVEMENT
INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITARIAN POLICY STUDIES, 2000; The Communitarian Vision
http://www.gwu.edu/~icps/vision.html // acs-EE2001Innovative, deadlock-breaking policy ideas that promote a fresh consensus around positive social action--such has been the hallmark of the communitarian movement over the past decade.
COMMUNITARIANS TRY AND SOLVE PROBLEMS BY NOT USING JUST GOVERNMENT OR MARKET, BUT THE THIRD FORCE OF THE COMMUNITY
INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITARIAN POLICY STUDIES, 2000; The Communitarian Vision
http://www.gwu.edu/~icps/vision.html // acs-EE2001In finding solutions to our social problems, communitarians seek to rely neither on costly government programs nor on the market alone, but on the powerful "third force" of the community. By reawakening communities and empowering communities to assert their moral standards, communitarians seek to hold individuals accountable for their conduct.
COMMUNITARIANISM HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MANY POLICY SUCCESSES OF THE LATE 1990’S
INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITARIAN POLICY STUDIES, 2000; The Communitarian Vision
http://www.gwu.edu/~icps/vision.html // acs-EE2001Americans have been struggling during the 1990s to restore the integrity of our basic institutions and turn back disturbing trends toward crime, social disorder, and family breakdown. The past decade has been an era of important social reforms: in the public schools, in the criminal justice system, in family policy. In states and localities across the nation, citizens have fought for greater emphasis on character, individual responsibility, and virtues and values in the public square. Partly as a result, on a host of "leading social indicators"–rates of violent crime, rates of youth crime, levels of teenage pregnancy, even student test scores–the nation is showing incremental but significant improvements.
Communitarian ideas and policy approaches have been playing a major role in this growing movement of cultural and institutional regeneration. Communitarian thinkers are in the forefront of the Character Education movement, which is fostering a return to the teaching of good personal conduct and individual responsibility in thousands of public schools around the country. Likewise, communitarians have been played a role in the new community-based approaches to criminal justice, which are showing solid success in restoring neighborhood order and achieving real reductions in violent crime. In the area of family policy, communitarians have worked for policies to strengthen families and discourage divorce. They have led in devising fresh, incentive-based policies designed to discourage a casual approach to marriage and to promote "children-first" thinking and family stability--while at the same time preserving the rights of women and men.