The role of the state, according to Hobhouse, is to "secure [the] conditions upon which its citizens are able to win by their own efforts all that is necessary to a full civic efficiency".

根据霍布豪斯的观点，国家的作用，就是“保证（那些）实现公民效率最大化的所有必要条件，公民在这些条件下可以通过自我努力实现成功”。

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“Civic organisations” (to party officials the term NGO sounds too much like organised opposition) would be given a role in “voicing the concerns of the people”, he said.

他表示“民间组织”将被赋予发出民众呼声的角色。

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The “I-do-for-you-and-you-do-for-me” ideology presents a social contract between individuals, and petitions play an important role in our civic space.

“我为人人，人人为我”的理念代表一种人与人的社会契约，并且请愿活动在公民生活空间里起到重要的作用。

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Blamed for our very refusal to play a bigger role in the civic realm apart from once every lustrum or so milling around the polling booth with the rest of the extras.

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In Europe, the state's leading role in areas such as higher education, health care and civic amenities such as museums may have discouraged private philanthropy.

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