The latest articles written by Arianna Giovannini

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE

Evidence on the need to re-set the system continues to pile up

By Arianna Giovannini | 04 July 2023

This is the core of the centre’s problem: its lack of understanding of the huge untapped potentia...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Real levelling up requires real investment in our regions

By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 16 November 2022

The carousel of contradictory decisions on Northern Powerhouse Rail might serve the centre in an ...

WHITEHALL

'Do as they say' devo must end

By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 11 July 2022

Central-local relations require reform before efforts at devolution and levelling up can truly wo...

WHITEHALL

Scrapping supplementary vote won't improve voting system

By Arianna Giovannini | 20 April 2022

Interim director of IPPR North, Arianna Giovannini, says scrapping supplementary vote looks like ...

DEVOLUTION

A focus on areas with stronger leaders will not be good news for all places

By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 12 October 2021

What will the devolution agenda look like under Michael Gove, asks Arianna Giovannini? The cases ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Model routes to democracy

By Henri Murison | 23 June 2021

Dr Arianna Giovannini says Sheffield voters' decision to reject the strong leader model was a 'vi...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Local government must retain its 'sovereignty'

By Arianna Giovannini | 27 April 2021

Local government has been repeatedly reformed, reshaped and hollowed out, says Arianna Giovannin...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling up resembles a jigsaw of disparate 'pieces of policy'

By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 02 February 2021

Arianna Giovannini says there is a consistent lack of clarity about what levelling up means - an...

MAYORS

Communities should be at the heart of the recovery phase

By Arianna Giovannini | 02 December 2020

Mayors in the North seem to have grasped the importance of the message that politics can speak to...