Measuring up: examining the potential for voluntary sector performance measurement to improve public service delivery |
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Authors: | Jonathan S. Davies Madeleine Pill |
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Affiliation: | 1. jsdavies@dmu.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Keywords: | neighbourhood governance big society Baltimore Bristol |
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