Title: Retrieving the big society /
Authors: Edwards, Jason, 1971 October 3-
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, in association with The Political Quarterly,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Great Britain Politics and government.
Contents: Introduction : retrieving the big society / Jason Edwards -- The big society in question / Maurice Glasman and Jesse Norman -- Red or orange : the big society in the new conservatism / Paul Kelly -- Cameron, culture and the creative class : the big society and the post-bureaucratic age / Alan Finlayson -- Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism / Rodney Barker -- Servile state or discredited state : some historical antecedents of current 'big society' debates / Jose Harris -- Tocqueville and the big society / Jeremy Jennings -- The big society and conservative politics : back to the future or forward to the past? / Alan Ware -- Freedom, free institutions and the big society / Jason Edwards -- From Burke to burkha : conservatism, multiculturalism and the big society / Richard Kelly and Robert Crowcroft -- The big society : post-bureaucratic social policy in the twenty-first century? / Benjamin Williams -- Free schools : big society or small interests? / Adam Leeder and Deborah Mabbett -- The big society and the 'mutualisation' of public services : a critical commentary / Johnston Birchall -- Beginning the big society in the early years / Louise Bamfield.