Rethinking Levelling Up. Caring for Place, Empowering Connectors and Redesigning Our Culture of Governance

This paper is part of IPPR and IPPR North’s progressive levelling up research. It has been commissioned as an independent provocation paper, designed to stimulate new thinking on a major topic in relation to the levelling up agenda. This paper focuses specifically on the governance of levelling up and how reforms in democratic governance can help achieve the deep-rooted changes needed to create a more progressive, equal and levelled up country.

This paper is published by IPPR and IPPR North as part of its ongoing research. The findings, argument and conclusions of the authors do not represent IPPR and IPPR North positions and this paper is designed to promote new thinking on the topic of levelling up.