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Introduction - the crisis of the welfare state in the postmoderncondition; Section 1 Communitarian approaches to the crisis introduction:social policy and the move to community; democracy and community-basedsocial policy; welfare and community - the New Zealand experiment. Section 2Neo-liberal individualism: introduction; the new right reforms of education;the politics of choice - public choice theory and the autonomous chooser;children of rogernomics - the new right, individualism and the culture ofnarcissism. Section 3 Methodological responses: introduction; education andthe ideal learning community; educational policy analysis and the politics ofinterpretation. Section 4 The postmodern "way out": introduction;postmodernism - the critique of reason and the rise of the new socialmovements; beyond the philosophy of the subject - liberalism, education andthe critique of individualism; individualism and community - education andthe politics of difference; conclusion - critical social policy in thepostmodern condition.