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Book Review: The Cameron Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of...
Steve Coulter delves into the latest title on the coalition’s ramshackle marriage of convenience, finding a useful book for students and general readers. The Cameron Clegg Government: Coalition...
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Book Review: Active Citizenship: What Could It Achieve and How? by Bernard...
Omar El-Khairy reviews the latest title by Bernard Crick, concluding that tensions around active citizenship have never been hotter. Active Citizenship: What Could it Achieve and How? Bernard Crick and...
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Book Review: Enterprising Care? Unpaid Voluntary Action in the 21st Century...
Many voluntary organisations now face having to take up the provision of some public services as government funding shrinks, and are also under considerable pressure to become more enterprising. Chris...
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Book Review: British Social Attitudes 28: 2011-2012 Edition edited by Alison...
The British Social Attitudes series provides a range of fascinating insights into the changing values of British society. The findings seem to suggest that we have become a less confident and less...
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Book Review: The Big Society Debate: A New Agenda for Social Welfare?, edited...
The contributors to this detailed and concise book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big Society agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it poses for policymakers and...
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Book Review: The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human...
In The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability, John Barry locates the causes of unsustainability in dominant capitalist modes of production, debt-based consumerism, and the imperative for...
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Book Review: Great American City: Chicago and the enduring neighbourhood...
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. In Great American City, Robert J. Sampson argues that communities still matter because life...
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Book Review: Local Democracy, Civic Engagement and Community: From New Labour...
This accessible book includes an analysis of local democracy, civic engagement and participation across a range of policy areas and in the context of debates around accountability, legitimacy,...
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Book Review: Kids – Child Protection in Britain: The Truth by Camila...
In Kids – Child Protection in Britain: The Truth, Camila Batmanghelidjh with Tim Rayment sets out a defence of Kids Company, the charity that she ran from 1996 until its dramatic and controversial...
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