Table of Contents: “…Introduction : retrieving the big society / Jason Edwards -- The big society in question / Maurice Glasman and Jesse Norman -- Red or orange : the big society in the new conservatism / Paul Kelly -- Cameron, culture and the creative class : the big society and the post-bureaucratic age / Alan Finlayson -- Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism / Rodney Barker -- Servile state or discredited state : some historical antecedents of current 'big society' debates / Jose Harris -- Tocqueville and the big society / Jeremy Jennings -- The big society and conservative politics : back to the future or forward to the past? …”