The UK government is expected to respond to the country's economic woes with a wide-ranging programme of fiscal austerity. After the 2008/9 recession, the government accompanied its austerity programme with the idea of the 'Big Society' - the vision that individuals and charities would step in to fill the void left by the withdrawal of public spending. Steve Gibbons and Christian Hilber provide evidence that the 'Big Society' did not emerge last time around, and there is no reason to believe it will now.

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16 November 2022

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LSE British Politics and Policy

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/if-the-government-cuts-spending-will-volunteers-step-in-autumn-statement/

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