Buijs argues that the participation society, as the government envisages it, requires a major transformation in social-moral attitudes and infrastructure.1 It requires a new type of citizen. Buys believes that we are now at the crossroads of the conflicting lines of narrative in the story of the citizen. In one line of narrative, the citizen becomes a selfish, calculating individual, who only has its own interest in mind. In this scenario, the citizen grows up in fear of the future, because he knows…
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