The big society: Rediscovery of 'the social' or rhetorical fig-leaf for neo-liberalism?

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 451-472

  Corbett, Steve ^a   Walker, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communitarianism; libertarian paternalism; Red Toryism; Thatcherism

Indexed keywords

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL THEORY; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL THEORY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84880787382     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018312471162     Document Type: Article

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