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Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality
- Abstract:
- ‘Levelling up’ - a policy agenda focused on reducing regional inequalities - has become the new mantra in British politics. This paper critiques the policy programme from its emergence in 2019 to the publication of the 2022 levelling up white paper. While it is a welcome recognition of gross regional inequality, local institutions lack capacity to deliver, there has been little genuine devolution and our analysis shows that little new funding has been committed. “Levelling up” could simply become the latest in a list of politically useful but empty slogans which are used as a substitute for resources and devolution.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/00343404.2022.2159356
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Regional Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 2339-2352
- Publication date:
- 2023-01-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-12-07
- DOI:
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1360-0591
- ISSN:
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0034-3404
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1318634
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pubs:1318634
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2023-01-09
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- Fransham et al
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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