Reconfiguring the State under the Coalition: Shoring up state power through the Big Society
IntroductionOn forming the coalition government in May 2010, David Cameron pledged to usher in not just a new government but ‘a new politics’, a new ‘progressive partnership’ in the national, not the party interest, whereby power is ‘taken out of the hands of the politicians and placed in the hands...
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Observatoire de la société britannique
2014
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | IntroductionOn forming the coalition government in May 2010, David Cameron pledged to usher in not just a new government but ‘a new politics’, a new ‘progressive partnership’ in the national, not the party interest, whereby power is ‘taken out of the hands of the politicians and placed in the hands of people’. The ‘Big Society’ was to provide the framework within which ordinary people could be empowered. Indeed, one of the key strands of the Big Society project was to be decentralisation, ‘p... |
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