Communitarianism is increasingly paid full attention in the academic and practicing communities. Community, instead of local government, becomes an essential unit of analysis in public policy studies. This paper began with the describing of community and communitarianism, and thus the interactive relationship between government and civil society was revealed. Second, this writer attempted to find out the status of communitarianism in a dynamic model of governance based upon the dialogue and interaction between state and society. This paper concludes that policy makers and public managers should seriously treat the important role of communitarianism in contemporary governance model.