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An untapped pool of volunteers for the Big Society? Not enough social capital? Depends on how you measure it
... a Big Society, where individuals take greater responsibility from the government for solving various societal problems and providing some public services, for example, local transport, libraries and social ...
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Youth sport volunteers in England: A paradox between reducing the state and promoting a Big Society
... ‘Big Society’ ideals are the 64,000 volunteer-run sports clubs in which almost ...a Big Society will need to deal with more fundamental questions about the role of ...
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Prisoners as citizens, big society and the rehabilitation revolution : truly revolutionary?
... the Big Society and Rehabilitation Revolution ...civic society, engages with the implications for the 'types' of intervention that could support offender engagement in civic society and ...
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Public Spending and Volunteering: "The Big Society", Crowding Out, and Volunteering Capital
... the Big Society in May 2010, it has received a fair amount of scepticism and ...The Big Society was proposed to bring about “a new era of people power” through policy measures such as provid- ...
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The Big Society and community development: Neighbourhood planning under the Localism Act
... Though the government promotes the changes to neighbourhood planning as being sig- nifi cant in the manner in which they afford local communities the opportunity to cut through previous bureaucratic process and take the ...
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Housing associations and the Big Society : lessons from Scotland's community housing sector
... the Big Society, for what is being problematised here is ‘welfare dependency’ and its role in creating social breakdown, with strong community being promoted as the solution to societal problems - as ...
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Big Society? Disabled people with the label of learning disabilities and the queer(y)ing of civil society
... civil society alongside the emergence of ‘Big Society’ as a policy agenda in the ...civil society and Big Society are conceptualized as we embark on a new research project ...
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Localism and the Big Society: the asset transfer of leisure centres and libraries – fighting closures or empowering communities?
... the Big Society through leisure facility transfer mirror those identified by the Civil Exchange Audit ...of society so that volunteers feel they are ‘flowing with the tide’ rather than battling ...
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An untapped pool of volunteers for the Big Society? Not enough social capital? Depends on how you measure it
... a Big Society, where individuals take greater responsibility from the government for solving various societal problems and providing some public services, for example, local transport, libraries and social ...
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The Big Society, localism and housing policy : recasting state citizen relations in an age of austerity (Special Issue Editor)
... the Big Society and Localism represent a particular governmental response to the present structural crisis in ...of society including young people and some of the middle ...
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The Big Society in a Time of Crisis – the Impact on Public Health
... As we shall see below, there are echoes within these concerns of the impact of the Big Society ideas. But what of the intellectual precursors of Third Way concepts? To uswe can trace these ideas back to the ...
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Briefing 1: The Big Society and Welfare Reform
... As this briefing paper highlights welfare reform is a fundamental part of the Big Society agenda. Yet its impact may cause irreparable damage to the very communities it seeks to encourage to be active, ...
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Schools, communities and social capital: building blocks in the 'Big Society' (Research associate full report)
... Social capital is a key characteristic of all communities and has been variously defined as: a product of durable networks of individuals (Bourdieu & Passeron 1977); resources available to strong family or community ...
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From the third sector to the big society: how changing UK government policies have eroded third sector trust
... communication between purchaser and provider, ultimately impairing service activities and the potential for organisational learning. TSOs have increasingly been engaged to devise new service approaches for the ‘hardest ...
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Can Big Media do "Big Society"?: A Critical Case Study of Commercial, Convergent Hyperlocal News
... The UK Government is committed to helping ‘nurture a new generation of local media companies’. Changes to local media ownership rules allowing companies to follow their customers from platform to platform are supposed to ...
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Localism and the (re)creation of capitalist space in the United Kingdom
... Place, Big Society, and the Localism Act, at a general level, share in common the notion that local people are more able to identify the public services that they need and the best ways to deliver them, ...
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Articles | British Journal of Community Justice
... 'Big Society' and some of the policies for criminal justice reform included in the recent Green Paper are in line with such ...and/or society in general, treating prisoners as citizens have been ...
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London 2012 Olympic legacy: a big sporting society?
... the iconic ‘Sport for All’ campaigns of the1970’s and the national demonstration projects of the 80’s (Collins and Kay 2003). However, sport for social good as a policy justification in these new public management times, ...
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Citizens in the digital metropolis : towards a meaningful stance of smart citizenship?!
... of big society citizenship, 2) the ideal type of urban citizenship and 3) the ideal type of smart ...of big society citizenship in the smart city is characterized by active, self-reliant ...
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Abstract: Big data refers to the organizational data asset that exceeds the volume, velocity, and variety of data
... for big data involve data availability, ranging from augmenting existing data storage to providing access to end-users employing business intelligence tools for the purpose of value ...more big data ...
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