The Mixed Social Economy as a Canadian Tradition

In: Studies in political economy: SPE ; a socialist review, Heft 47, S. 33-60

Abstract

Recent interest among political theorists & sociologists in civil society studies has led neo-Marxists to revise & defend their studies of the state. Empirical evidence & theoretical arguments are used to deconstruct this binary opposition between the state & civil society. In addition, the emergence of government funding & inspection of private charities in Ontario is reviewed in order to show that a rewriting of the history of the symbiotic relationship between public & private resources in the management of poverty, crime, & vice is needed. Such a rewriting should focus on both the well-known continuities & the less-discussed continuities in administrative practice & political philosophy that link the pre- & post-welfare state systems. M. Maguire