decentralisation

Beyond Localism: rethinking British governance

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The latest edition of the British Politics Review features an article by Senior Researcher Adam Schoenborn arguing that the Coalition Government must devolve to deliver: "Political decentralisation alone will not give people transformative power to shape their lives and communities, economic decentralisation will be every bit as important to this goal. Despite inhibiting the growth of income inequality, New Labour allowed meaningful asset-ownership to become the preserve of the rich…"

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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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