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Post-Brexit regional policy in England: exploring ‘Levelling Up’ in practice
journal contribution
posted on 2023-11-17, 14:17 authored by Nicholas Gray, Kate BroadhurstKate Broadhurst’Levelling Up’ has come to dominate debates around regional inequality in England but has been criticised for lacking clarity and definition. This paper addresses this critique by providing an early assessment of the concept. It summarises and critically reviews Levelling Up, arguing that the concept offers a mix of marginal and familiar policies, alongside aspirations for industrial policy and research and development. Furthermore, Levelling Up begins to diverge from recent policy in its spatial focus and approach to governance and devolution. As governments in Europe and the US grapple with similar challenges the paper has value beyond a UK audience.
History
School
- Loughborough Business School
Published in
Regional StudiesVolume
57Issue
12Pages
2551-2562Publisher
Taylor & FrancisVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Taylor & Francis under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2023-04-17Copyright date
2023ISSN
0034-3404eISSN
1360-0591Publisher version
Language
- en