Add to ORKGLocal government boundaries very rarely correlate well with local economies, meaning that some authorities are at the mercy of political forces beyond their control. Discussing a new Centre for Cities report, Zach Wilcox argues that different local authorities can better work together by fostering formal collaborations like combined authorities, as well as through other less formal ways of working together. He encourages government to offer incentives in the form of tailored devolution for those councils which do take on formal collaborations
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After 2010, the UK Government’s espousal of a Localist agenda reflected a rejection of the regional ...
[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] Following the Queen's speech my twitter feed is full of people exp...
The mayoral elections in May are part of a plan put in place by George Osborne to reinvigorate local...
Jonathan-Carr-West1 Devolution to a model set out by the centre is not devolution at all, writes Jon...
The Government is doing deals with combined authorities in England which will see responsibility for...
UK cities currently have limited control over the majority of their finances, significantly constrai...
This article provides a robust critique of the UK central government's approach to devolution in Eng...
The City Finance Commission has called for major reforms to the way councils are financed to help th...
The Conservatives’ proposals for ‘Northern powerhouses’ and Labour’s Adonis report illustrate the pr...
The British state is being dramatically restructured by the ongoing wave of devolution deals but the...
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In a stream of high-profile announcements, the UK central government h...
The newly elected Conservative majority government have made city deals and metro area devolution on...
Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers have sought maximum publicity for their policies of dece...
The PSA recently published a new report that highlights a number of problems with associated with th...
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After 2010, the UK Government’s espousal of a Localist agenda reflected a rejection of the regional ...
[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] Following the Queen's speech my twitter feed is full of people exp...
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