Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 343-364

  Hancock, Lynn ^a   Mooney, Gerry ^b   Neal, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big society; Broken society; community; crisis; policy; welfare

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WELFARE PROVISION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84863770585     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018312444410     Document Type: Article

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