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Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(4):691-699; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm045
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It's a Civic Christmas

Catherine Fieschi

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

WITH summer weather still nowhere on the horizon, the month of July brought Christmas early in more ways than one: (much) less than a hundred days into Gordon Brown's government, progressives and participation junkies everywhere seemed to have been granted their wish for a different ‘style’ of politics and a devolution of power away from an overly centralised executive and toward Parliament, localities and ordinary people. It would take a mighty cynic to sniff out a whiff of spin or a subtle hint of demagoguery emanating from the Governance of Britain document. And, were the cynics to pipe up, it would be worth reminding them that while spin may not be entirely absent from this stage, the star of the show here is civil society.

For the purposes of this series of commentaries, this is important: I finished my last piece with the question, who will Brown trust? It seems . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The Governance of Britain: civil society as black box
 

   A touching faith in communities
 

   New sites of participation and mobilisation
 
The Promise
... And The Challenge

   Conclusion
 

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