Edwards, Jason <br/><br/>
Retrieving the big society  text 
edited by Jason Edwards 
 - Chichester  Wiley-Blackwell, in association with The Political Quarterly  2012 
 - 187p.                                                                             Pbk 
<br/><br/> <p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p> 
<br/><br/>Introduction: retrieving the big society -- The big society in question -- Red or orange: the big society in the new conservatism -- Cameron, culture and the creative class: the big society and the post-bureaucratic age -- Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism -- Servile state or discredited state: some historical antecedents of current big society debates -- Tocqueville and the big society -- The big society and conservative politics: back to the future or forward to the past? -- Freedom, free institutions and the big society -- From Burke to Burkha: conservatism, multiculturalism and the big society -- The big society: post-bureaucratic social policy in the twenty-first century? -- Free schools: big society or small interests? -- The big society and the mutualisation of public services -- Beginning the big society in the early years. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781118368787  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012015778 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain - Politics and government<br/>Big Society
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.942 EDW