The quiet revolution : Aggrandising people power by Family Group Conferences

The all-encompassing welfare state that often suffocates citizens is having its final drink in the last-chance saloon. The introduction of the open market as a possible alternative has not been successful either. People are suppressed by the expanding ''system world'', damaging their ''life world''. For that reason the welfare state does not need to be reformed, but replaced.

The ''participation st...