Interesting times: education and broadcasting in the 1990s

Abstract

The agenda of the Education Reform Act (1988) and the White Paper Broadcasting in the '90s: Competition, Choice and Quality is to reorganise the way that the social goods of education and broadcasting are dis tributed, and so to change the ways in which govemment/citizen relations are instituted and regulated. Much of the opposition to these changes renders itself ineffective by speaking in the terms of a cultural 'welfare statism: New alternatives based on notions of a public sphere, a radical democracy, and a republican citizenship are critically reviewed.