The social-democratic state existing in advanced democracies is gradually changing into a republican state. The neo-liberal wave failed because modern societies need a strong, not a weak state. A republican state is strong enough to protect the public patrimony from private capture. The republican state that is emerging is fiscally strong because it limits its debts, it is administratively strong because it is engaged in public management reform, and it is politically strong because citizens, politicians and civil servants know that the principles ruling politics are not the same that rule markets. A short survey of the literature on republicanism is undertaken to substantiate these claims.
Republican State; Public Patrimony; Market; Political Theory