Retrieving the big society
By: edited by Jason Edwards
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, in association with The Political Quarterly
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781118368787
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: retrieving the big society; title: The big society in question; title: Red or orange: the big society in the new conservatism; title: Cameron, culture and the creative class: the big society and the post-bureaucratic age; title: Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism; title: Servile state or discredited state: some historical antecedents of current big society debates; title: Tocqueville and the big society; title: The big society and conservative politics: back to the future or forward to the past?; title: Freedom, free institutions and the big society; title: From Burke to Burkha: conservatism, multiculturalism and the big society; title: The big society: post-bureaucratic social policy in the twenty-first century?; title: Free schools: big society or small interests?; title: The big society and the mutualisation of public services; title: Beginning the big society in the early years.