Mark Pennington – Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy
In a Hobart Paper on this topic Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy Mark Pennington and John Meadowcroft argue that government attempts to undertake ‘cultural planning’ to create social capital are subject to exactly the same problems that led economic and industrial planning to fail. In order for democratic systems to work, they must be limited to co-ordinating certain core political functions. Markets will generate attributes such as trust and non-discrimination, which are necessary to oil the wheels of both commercial and political society.