A big idea for the big society? The advent of national citizen service

Political Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Mycock, Andrew ^a   Tonge, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizens; Citizenship; Conservatives; Engagement; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952595630     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02166.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. D. Cameron, 'The best is yet to come', 4 October 2006.
2. D. Cameron, 'Building a pro-social society', 23 November 2005.
3. Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Citizenship Survey 2009-10, London, DCLG, 2010.
4. As party leader, Cameron first raised the idea of national citizen service at the Political Studies Association 'Values of Britishness' conference, London, 28 November 2005.
5. Commission on the Future of Volunteering (CFV), The Future of Volunteering, London, CFV, 2008.
6. See Youth Citizenship Commission, Making the Connection: Building Youth Citizenship in the UK, London, Ministry of Justice, 2009. The authors sat on the Commission, which backed citizen service but highlighted difficulties.
7. T. Hickman, The Call-up: A History of National Service, London, Headline, 2004.
8. M. Lau, P. Poutvarra and A. Wagener, 'An economic analysis of civic service', 2002.
9. D. Eberl and R. Gal, 'From military service to civic service: The evolution of national youth service', in A. McBride and M. Sherraden, eds, Civic Service Worldwide: Impacts and Inquiry, New York, Sharpe, 2007, pp. 17-33.
10. 'Community service in Germany: an army of volunteers, Economist, 15 July 2010.
11. J. Crabtree, 'Citizenship first: the case for compulsory civic service', Prospect, no. 156, 2009.
12. M. Yates, 'Community service and political-moral discussions among adolescents: a study of a mandatory school based program in the United States', in M. Yates and J. Younniss, eds, Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives on Community Service and Activism in Youth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 16-31.
13. See R. Puttnam, Bowling Alone, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
14. P. Frumkin and J. Jastrzab, Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service? Boston, MA, Harvard University Press, 2010.
15. D. Cameron, Speech to Foreign Policy Centre, London, 24 August 2005.
16. Conservative Party, Built to Last, London, Conservative Party, 2006, p. 5.
17. D. Cameron, 'Young Adult Trust will make a constructive difference', Speech to Youth Adult Trust, 30 October 2006.
18. 'Ex-Army chief: Tory national service plan amounts to some sort of social service', Daily Mail, 10 September 2007.
19. This research was funded by Martin Rose, chair of the Big Society Network-a charity which stresses its independence from government. Since February 2008, Rose has donated over -25,000 to Tim Loughton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Children and Families, for research into National Citizen Service.
20. Conservative Party, National Citizen Service, London, Conservative Party, 2010; Strathclyde University, The Challenge Programme Evaluation, Glasgow, Strathclyde University, 2009, p. 7.
21. Strathclyde University, Challenge Programme Evaluation. The report notes that 87 out of 104 young people graduated. There was also a 5 per cent dropout rate due to 'unacceptable behaviour'.