We are seeing the onset of a new logic of government, which promises to alleviate many of the symptoms and crises of our age

Many commentators greeted the onset of the financial crisis with the expectation that this heralded the end of the neoliberal era. Yet four years later, the ‘neoliberal’ model of policy-making has exhibited a resilience which such people would not have predicted. William Davies argues that this increasingly common framing looks at the problem in the wrong way and that we are instead witnessing the emergence of what he terms ‘neocommunitarianism’.