ABSTRACT
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was published in Germany in 1962 when the command and control model of the social-welfare state was enjoying a heyday. In the late 1970s, this model of social-welfare state began to be undermined and replaced by what is called a regulatory state. 1 While Habermas might claim the regulatory state as a further development of the social-welfare state, nonetheless the landscape of the political public sphere has undoubtedly been transformed by its establishment.
