Empowerment or abandonment? Prospects for neighbourhood revitalization under the big society
- 23 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Public Money and Management
- Vol. 32 (3), 193-200
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2012.676276
Abstract
This article explores the impact of recent trends towards privatism through a study of neighbourhood governance in Baltimore and Bristol and considers its implications for the big society in the UK. The self-help ideology of the big society has been prevalent in Baltimore for many years and the city's experience highlights profound difficulties in substituting volunteering for government-led revitalization. The article concludes that the Baltimore experience is a warning to British policy-makers, posing a major dilemma.Keywords
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