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education is deemed necessary because “this mixing of social classes and races is
extremely important in a democracy; without it, we lose our capacity to under-
stand and empathize with those who are dierent from us. When that happens,
it is not long before our society loses its ability to care for those who need help.
We become a collection of individuals, not a community” (Osborne and Gaebler
1992, 101). erefore, the largely transactional approach to entrepreneurial gov-
ernance (Discretionary Tradition) must be matched by a relational civil society
(Collaborative Tradition).
It has also been persuasively argued that multiple bases for democratic legiti-
macy are necessary, incl ...