Overview
- One of the first books to document the Conservative government's Northern Powerhouse agenda since 2014
- Offers an important contribution to academic literature on post-crisis politics and political economy in the UK
- Provides an important education resource for the study of local economic development and sub-national governance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy (SPERIRP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Economic Policy and the Political Economy of Northern Development
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Place, City-Regional Governance and Local Politics
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Inequality and Austerity in the Northern Powerhouse Agenda
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Conclusion
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Keywords
- Political Economy
- The Northern Powerhouse
- UK Development
- North-South divide
- Devolution
- Regional Development Agencies
- Deindustrialisation
- Cities and local growth agenda (CLOG)
- Business Rate Retention Scheme (BRRS)
- Economic development
- Northern England
- Socio-economic
- Local development
- Financial crisis
- Conservative government
- Brexit
- Political parties
- British Politics
About this book
This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England. Socio-economic conditions in the North – and its future prospects – have become central to national debates in the UK. The status of Northern regions and their local economies is intimately associated with efforts to ‘rebalance’ the economy away from the South East, London and the finance sector in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The contributors to this volume focus in particular on the coalition and Conservative governments’ ‘Northern Powerhouse’ agenda. They also analyse associated efforts to devolve power to local authorities across England, which promise to bring both greater prosperity and autonomy to the deindustrialized North. Several chapters critically interrogate these initiatives, and their ambitions, by placing them within their wider historical, geographical, institutional and ideological contexts. As such, Berry and Giovannini seek to locate Northern England within a broaderunderstanding of the political dimension of economic development, and outline a series of ideas for enhancing the North’s prospects.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Craig Berry is Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK. His previous roles include Policy Advisor at HM Treasury, Pensions Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress, and Head of Policy and Senior Researcher at the International Longevity Centre – UK. His research interests comprise of the North’s location within global value chains, and the political processes that underpin Northern economic development.
Arianna Giovannini is Senior Lecturer in Local Politics at the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, UK, where she is a member of the Local Governance Research Unit and the Centre for Urban Research and Austerity. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on devolution, territorial and political identity, regionalism and democracy, with a particular emphasis on the ‘English Question’ and the North of England.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing England’s North
Book Subtitle: The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse
Editors: Craig Berry, Arianna Giovannini
Series Title: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62560-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62559-1Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87342-8Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62560-7Published: 03 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3394
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, Regionalism, British Politics, Regional Development, Development and Social Change