David Cameron

Innovative Ownership

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Ownership, Self-Organisation and the Post Bureaucratic Age: the ambient conditions for a radical New Centre Ground?

"...This part of the Cameron agenda is an exciting one for anyone who cares about spreading ownership more widely. While we have argued that the Conservatives' thinking on the post bureaucratic age is at times too evangelical and pays too little attention to the possible pitfalls, there can be no doubt that tying the issue of ownership into the vision of a world beyond bureaucracy presents us with a powerful statement of ethos for our nation..."

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ResPublica mentioned in Cameron's speech

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David Cameron: The Big Society

In the words of Phillip Blond, director of ResPublica: "the state ... has dispossessed the people and amassed all power to itself ... This centralisation of power has made people passive when they should be active and cynical when they should be idealistic. This attitude only makes things worse - the more people think they can't make a difference, the more they opt out from society."

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