The Big Society and Conservative Politics: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages 82-97

  Ware, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84864307127     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02335.x     Document Type: Article

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2. Although not an academic himself, he was well connected to elite intellectual communities through his wife, the distinguished anthropologist Mary Douglas.
3. J. Posnett, 'A profile of the charity sector', In Charity Statistics 1983-4, Tonbridge, Charities Aid Foundation, 1984, pp. 56-7.
4. Charity Statistics 1985-6, Tonbridge, Charities Aid Foundation, 1986, p. 138.
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7. R. A. Dahl, After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1970. In Britain, the equation of local democracy with reform of the existing framework is evident in L. J. Sharpe, Why Local Democracy?, Fabian Pamphlet 361, London, Fabian Society, 1965.
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10. Interview given in Woman's Own, 31 October ; the version quoted comes from the transcript issued by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.1987
11. Moreover, a spirit of comradeship was often a factor in the formation of mutuals; A. Ware, Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organizations in Britain and the United States, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1989, p. 40.
12. A. Ware, 'Introduction: the changing relations between charities and the state', In Charities and Government, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1989, p. 22.
13. J. Bulpitt, Territory and Power in Britain, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1983; see also 'Special Issue on "Territory and Power"', Government and Opposition 45, 2010.