Margaret Thatcher's 'acive citizen': placing civil society at the centre of citizenship
The Welfare State and the 'New Right'
Thatcherism and 'active citizenship'
The responsible individual
Does the state have a role?
Civil Society as a nursery of citizenship
The market as an educational tool? 'Popular capitalism'
Rights and duties
Thatcher's third term and the idea of an 'active citizenship'
Neoliberalism or communitarianism?
The new Conservative idea of citizenship
Conclusion
John Major's Citizen's Charter and the consumer citizen
An ideal successor?
The 1990s and Major's administration
Ideology, citizenship and The Citizen's Charter
What was the Charter about?
The state, the market, and the meanings of citizenship
The debate around the Charter as a Thatcherite policy
The administrative and organisational reforms
The consumer and the active citizen
Conclusion
The New Labour Era and Conservative Party reconstruction
New Labour: From reinvention to power
Communities, public service, and citizenship
Conservative crises and the party's 'modernization'
Conservative leaders in opposition
Reinventing conservative ideology: Compassionate and Civic Conservatism
Conclusion
The ideology behind the Big Society: 'There is such thing as society'
The Conservatives and the British in the early twenty-first century
Conservative modernizers
The ideology of the 'new' Conservatives
The 2008 crisis and the 2010 coalition: was modernization threatened?
Big Society and a redefined idea of citizenship
The state as Big Government
Rebuilding civil society
The individual and social action
Big Society: traditions and ideas.