The Power of Belonging: Identity, citizenship and community cohesion (17th January 2008)
A ‘new identity politics’ has emerged in Britain over the last decade or so. It has evolved from within Britain’s liberal and social democratic traditions and maintains that we need to do more as a society to foster a common sense of belonging and shared civic identities. Shared identities are thought to contribute to a number of progressive goals, such as fostering communities in which people from different backgrounds get along well together, encouraging citizens to participate actively in public life and generating wider support for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and income. In this short report the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) set out to test the claims of those who support this new agenda and interrogate its potential for furthering liberal and social democratic goals. The report also sets out a number of recommendations for how national and local government can act to promote a common sense of belonging.
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A ‘new identity politics’ has emerged in Britain over the last decade or so. It has evolved from within Britain’s liberal and social democratic traditions and maintains that we need to do more as a society to foster a common sense of belonging and shared civic identities. Shared identities are thought to contribute to a number of progressive goals, such as fostering communities in which people from different backgrounds get along well together, encouraging citizens to participate actively in public life and generating wider support for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and income. In this short report the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) set out to test the claims of those who support this new agenda and interrogate its potential for furthering liberal and social democratic goals. The report also sets out a number of recommendations for how national and local government can act to promote a common sense of belonging.
Click here for the Executive Summary
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