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Chartist demonstration, Kennington Common, 1848; illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria (1900) by Robert Wilson.
Responsive communitarianism was founded in 1990 by Amitai Etzioni and William A. Galston.1
This school of thought serves as a synthesis of liberal and academic-communitarian concerns, positing that societies must balance the moral claims of the common good with those of individual autonomy and human rights. Responsive communitarians argue that neither value should inherently take precedence over the other, and they advocate for pulling societies back toward the center when they tilt too far toward either extreme.12