But for some transit advocates, the embrace of Uber and its competitors risks undermining civic ideals of accessibility and transparency. (theverge.com)
He was concerned with a civic ideal whose dynamic was reflective of the republican constitution. (firstthings.com)
The abandonment of this civic ideal for the economy, the real turning point, took place later according to Sandel, in the second half of the 19th century, when a «political economy of citizenship [turned in] to a political economy of economic growth and distributive justice, from a republican public philosophy to the version of liberalism that informs the procedural republic». (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)