Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality
批判了英国2019年至2022年旨在减少区域不平等的“升级”政策议程，指出地方机构能力不足、缺乏真正权力下放且新资金承诺有限，可能沦为空洞口号。
‘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.