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Book SynopsisRetrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance.
Trade Review“It is well worth a read.” (The Journal of Social Policy, 1 October 2013)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors
Introduction: Retrieving the Big Society (JASON EDWARDS)
1. The Big Society in Question (MAURICE GLASMAN and JESSE NORMAN)
2. Red or Orange: The Big Society in the New Conservatism (PAUL KELLY)
3. Cameron, Culture and the Creative Class: The Big Society and the Post-Bureaucratic Age (ALAN FINLAYSON)
4. Big Societies, Little Platoons and the Problems with Pluralism (RODNEY BARKER)
5. Servile State or Discredited State: Some Historical Antecedents of Current ‘Big Society’ Debates (JOSE HARRIS)
6. Tocqueville and the Big Society (JEREMY JENNINGS)
7. The Big Society and Conservative Politics: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? (ALAN WARE)
8. Freedom, Free Institutions and the Big Society (JASON EDWARDS)
9. From Burke to Burkha: Conservatism, Multiculturalism and the Big Society (RICHARD KELLY and ROBERT CROWCROFT)
10. The Big Society: Post-Bureaucratic Social Policy in the Twenty-first Century? (BENJAMIN WILLIAMS)
11. Free Schools: Big Society or Small Interests? (ADAM LEEDER and DEBORAH MABBETT)
12. The Big Society and the ‘Mutualisation’ of Public Services: A Critical Commentary (JOHNSTON BIRCHALL)
13. Beginning the Big Society in the Early Years (LOUISE BAMFIELD)
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