In Chapter 7, the third scenario is outlined. Here, the focus is on communitarianism and social capital as alternatives to state – or public – control. These models have gained considerable attention during the 1990s both as political theories (in the case of communitarianism) and as a theory of social underpinnings of economic development (which is at the heart of theories of social capital). In both theories, collective solutions are redefined from matters of the state to spontaneous forms of collaborative actions which are believed to be more attractive and more appropriate to resolve the collective problems of the 1990s when the public sector is too weak and too poor to play its former role.