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Austerity and After: The Domestic Subnational Agenda

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12.00PM to 2:00pm

Speaker(s): Dr Nicola Headlam

Department of Politics Research Seminar

in association with the Centre for Urban Research (CURB)

 

Austerity and After: The Domestic Subnational Agenda

(Oxford Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow and ESRC Urban Transformations Programme)

 

The Northern Powerhouse concept and its uncomfortable fit with public sector austerity have characterised the Coalition and Conservative governments for most of the past decade. The asymmetries of governance of economic development are worthy of serious attention as the landscapes of localism frame our unequal United Kingdom. The continued rescaling of the state has profound consequences (especially in England) and connecting the structures with the “unglamorous” business of constitutional and policy development is urgently necessary for those seeking policy alternatives. In this talk Nicola Headlam reflects on the challenges facing subnational government in the context of continuing cuts to the budgets of local governments and whether the Northern Powerhouse agenda has the capacity to deliver the economic renaissance for the North of England its proponents have promised.

Location: H/G21 Eynns Room, Campus West, Heslington

Admission: FREE