Localism, social capital and the 'big society'

Local Economy

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 690-701

  Westwood, Andy ^a  

^a Guild HE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Society; cooperatives; disadvantaged communities; franchising; local economic growth; localism; mayors; rebalancing the economy; social capital; social economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755173991     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094211422195     Document Type: Article

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