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Post-Brexit regional policy in England: exploring ‘Levelling Up’ in practice

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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 Studies

Volume

57

Issue

12

Pages

2551-2562

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher 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

2023-04-17

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

0034-3404

eISSN

1360-0591

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Kate Broadhurst. Deposit date: 9 February 2023