The big society: Back to the future

Political Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 487-493

  Corbett, Steve ^a   Walker, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Society; Crowding out; Neoliberalism; Red Toryism; Thatcherism; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865401115     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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