New Policy Spaces: The Impact of Devolution on Third Sector Policy in the UK

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-238

  Alcock, Pete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Devolution; Policy; Social enterprise; Third sector; Voluntary and community

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; DEVOLUTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL POLICY;

NORTHERN IRELAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84856702243     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00832.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. 6, P. and Leat, D. (1997), Inventing the British Voluntary Sector by Committee: from Wolfenden to Deakin, Non-Profit Studies, 1, 2: 3-47.
2. Acheson, N. (2010), Welfare State Reform, Compacts and Restructuring Relations between the State and the Voluntary Sector: Reflections on Northern Ireland's Experience, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 2: 175-93.
3. Adams, J. and Robinson, P. (eds) (2002), Devolution in Practice: Public Policy Differences within the UK, London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
4. Adams, J. and Schmuecker, K. (eds) (2005), Devolution in Practice 2006: Public Policy Differences within the UK, Newcastle upon Tyne: Institute for Public Policy Research.
5. Alcock, P. (2010a), A Strategic Unity: Defining the Third Sector in the UK, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 1: 5-24.
6. Alcock, P. (2010b), Building the Big Society: a new policy environment for the third sector in England, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 3: 379-90.
7. Alcock, P. (2011), Voluntary action, New Labour and the 'third sector'. In M. Hilton and J. McKay (eds), The Ages of Voluntarism: How we got to the Big Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Barnard, H. (2010), Big Society, Cuts and Consequences: A Think Piece, London: Cass Business School.
9. Billis, D. (2010), Towards a Theory of Hybrid Organisations. In D. Billis (ed.), Hybrid Organisations and the Third Sector: Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
10. Birrell, D. and Williamson, A. (2001), The Voluntary-Community Sector and Political Development in Northern Ireland since 1972, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2, 3: 205-20.
11. Blond, P. (2010), Red Tory: How the Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It, London: Faber and Faber.
12. Cabinet Office (2010), Building the Big Society, London: Cabinet Office.
13. Carmel, E. and Harlock, J. (2008), Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership, procurement and performance in the UK, Policy and Politics, 36, 2: 155-71.
14. Casey, J., Dalton, B., Melville, R. and Onyx, J. (2010), Strengthening Government-Nonprofit Relations: International Experiences with Compacts, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 1: 59-76.
15. Christie Commission (2011), Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services (Scotland), Edinburgh: APS Scotland.
16. Clark, J., Kane, D., Wilding, K. and Wilton, J. (2010), The UK Civil Society Almanac 2010, London: National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
17. Coote, A. (2010), Cutting it: The 'Big Society' and the new austerity, London: New Economics Foundation.
18. Craig, G., Taylor, M., Wilkinson, M. and Monro, S. (2002), Contract or Trust? The role of compacts in local governance, Bristol: Policy Press.
19. Deakin Commission (1996), Meeting the Challenge of Change: Voluntary Action into the 21st Century, Report of the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector in England, London: National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
20. Department for Social Development (DSD) (2003), Pathways for Change: a report of the Task Force on Resourcing the Voluntary and Community Sector, Belfast: DSD.
21. Department for Social Development (DSD) (2005), Positive Steps, Belfast: DSD.
22. Harris, B. (2010), Voluntary action and the state in historical perspective, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 1: 25-40.
23. Home Office (2003), Building Civil Renewal: Government support for community capacity building and proposals for change, London: Home Office.
24. Kemp, A. (1997), Heart and Hand: Report of the Commission on the future of the Voluntary Sector in Scotland, Edinburgh: Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
25. Kendall, J. (2003), The Voluntary Sector: Comparative perspectives in the UK, London: Routledge.
26. Kendall, J. (2009), The third sector and the policy process in the UK: ingredients in a hyperactive horizontal policy environment. In J. Kendall (ed.), Handbook of Third Sector Policy in Europe: Multi-level Processes and Organised Civil Society, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
27. Kendall, J. (2010), Bringing ideology back in: the erosion of political innocence in English third sector policy, Journal of Political Ideologies, 15, 3: 241-58.
28. Kendall, J. and Knapp, M. (1995), A loose and baggy monster: boundaries, definitions and typologies. In J. Davis Smith, R. Hedley and C. Rochester (eds), Introduction to the Voluntary Sector, London: Routledge.
29. Lewis, J. (1999), Reviewing the Relationship between the Voluntary Sector and the State in Britain in the 1990s, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 10, 3: 255-70.
30. Lodge, G. and Schmuecker, K. (eds) (2010), Devolution in Practice 2010, London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
31. Milbourne, L. (2009), Remodelling the Third Sector: Advancing Collaboration or Competition in Community-Based Initiatives? Journal of Social Policy, 38, 2: 277-98.
32. New Economics Foundation (NEF) (2001), Low Flying Heroes, London: NEF.
33. Norman, J. (2010), The Big Society, Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press.
34. Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) (2009), State of the Sector V, Belfast: NICVA.
35. Paxton, W., Pearce, N., Unwin, J. and Molyneux, P. (2005), The Voluntary Sector Delivering Public Services: transfer or transformation? York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
36. Phillimore, J. and McCabe, A., with Soteri-Proctor, A. and Taylor, R. (2010), Understanding the distinctiveness of small scale, third sector activity: the role of local knowledge and networks in shaping below the radar actions, TSRC Working Paper 33, Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
37. Salamon, L. and Anheier, H. (1997), Defining the Nonprofit Sector: A Cross-National Analysis, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
38. Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) (2010), Scottish Voluntary Sector Statistics 2010, Edinburgh: SCVO.
39. Scottish Government (2008), Enterprising Third Sector: Action Plan 2008-11, Edinburgh: Scottish Government.
40. Smerdon, M. (ed.) (2009), The First Principle of Voluntary Action: essays on the independence of the voluntary sector in Canada, England, Germany, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United States of America and Wales, Working Paper No. 3, London: The Baring Foundation.
41. Taylor, M. (2011), Public Policy in the Community (2nd edn), Basingstoke: Palgrave.
42. Welsh Assembly Government (2005), Social Enterprise Strategy for Wales, Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government.
43. Welsh Assembly Government (2008), The Third Dimension: A Strategic Action Plan for the Voluntary Sector Scheme, Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government.
44. Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) (2011), Database of Voluntary Organisations in Wales July 2011, WCVA.
45. Wolfenden Committee (1978), The Future of Voluntary Organisations, London: Croom Helm.