Pandit, who moved to the United States at sixteen, is rarely described as a communitarian.

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Promoting parks and public space fits neatly with the communitarian ideas beloved by the Blair government.

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To be clear, Mr Salmond is genuine about the communitarian approach, about the social wage.

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The communitarian Spanish participants found a way to avoid the cut-throat business of nominating their peers for eviction.

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But the same values also incline them, in contrast to, say, white evangelicals, to communitarian economic policies usually considered liberal (by the American definition of that word).

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"Most people will tell you that they are above-average drivers and stock investors, " says Amitai Etzioni, director of the Institute for communitarian policy studies at George Washington University.

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By contrast, he depicted Scotland as communitarian by instinct.

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Apart from Sedgefield and Mr Clinton, the other main influence on Mr Blair came from the communitarian ideas of the philosopher John Macmurray and later thinkers, such as the American sociologist, Amitai Etzioni, whom he met in 1995.

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