Model of community and Civil Society
Recently, there has been a rebirth of interest in the idea of community and civility in America. Political leader of both major political parties, scholars of different camps, best-selling writer and popular commentator not only agree that community. Despite increasing diversity in America, or perhaps because of it, community is seen as a way of bringing about unity and synthesis (Bellah et al. 1985, 1991; Etzioni 1988, 1995; Gardner 1991; Selznick 1992). In public administration, the quest for community has been reflected in the view that the role of government, especially local government, is indeed to help create and support ''community.