From the Third Sector to the Big Society: How Changing UK Government Policies Have Eroded Third Sector Trust

Voluntas

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 485-508

  Milbourne, Linda ^a   Cushman, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big society; Control; Critical management; Innovation; New public management; Performance audit; Risk; Third sector; Trust; Voluntary and community organisations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; CULTURAL RELATIONS; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; INNOVATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; PUBLIC SECTOR; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875685752     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-012-9302-0     Document Type: Article

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