Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Over the past decade there has been much debate challenging the approach that New Labour \ntook on tackling social and economic division across Britain. Coupled with this debate, \nquestioning the merit of community governance, British society in 2006 was described by the \nthen Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, as being ‘broken’, implying that New Labour’s \npolicies, which focused on local government, were seen as failing. When the new coalition \ngovernment was formed in May 2010 the ‘Big Society,’ an alternative style of community \ngovernance was introduced. The introduction of the Big Society is creating a new discourse in \nrespect of local and regional planning and decision making, which challenges the notion of \ncommunity. Against this background this paper provides an analytical discussion on the \nemerging new forms of community governance and in particular the re-democratisation of \ncommunities in Britain.
Author: Jamie P. Halsall
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W64298302