Regionalism, Devolution and Infrastructure

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ID21695626
AuthorsJanice Morphet (0000-0001-7056-6526, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume83
Issue83
Pages102-112
Publication date2023-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSoundings (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-6620 • E-ISSN: 1741-0797
PublisherLawrence and Wishart (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3898/soun.83.07.2023
OpenAlexW4379656288
LanguageEN
References cited8

The relationship between devolution, regions and infrastructure is at the core of much of the current discussion about 'levelling up' in the UK. The lack of investment in infrastructure, together with centralised control over project investment, is a longstanding issue that is causing continuing frustration for sub-national politicians, even those supporting the same political party as the government. This article examines the nature of these relationships over the past and more recent period, considering both the devolved nations and the absence of devolution in England. It considers the role that infrastructure has in regional development and in centralised state control, and its consequences for economic growth. It highlights that the UK, unlike any other EU member state, has no national development or infrastructure plan. The cultural politics of 'levelling up', it argues, therefore remain set in a centralised state with no mechanisms for specific interventions to make social, economic and physical differences to localities that are left behind

Economic growth · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Inward investment · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Regional Development and Policy

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