Established in December 2002, the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) is a multi-disciplinary research institute at The University of Manchester. IPEG aims to connect research, policy and practice, and provides a focus for debate and research around the general theme of governance: political, economic, international, regional and local.
Recent updates:
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IPEG hosts a series of expert seminars on Housing, Equalities and Good Relations with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (see news page) - 9/03/09
Matthew Goodwin is to speak at Karlsruhe Dialogues (see news page) - 30/01/09
Administration, Democracy and Performance - A Symposium (see news page) - 19/09/08
Housing Aspirations for a New Generation: Report Published - 19/09/08
Challenges to Cohesion Conference: Registration now open (see event page) - 18/08/08
Votes and Voices Publication (see news page) - 06/08/08
Who Delivers Public Services - Launch event (see news page) - 13/06/08
Current research includes:
- Economic Development and Sustainable Development Questionnaires
- Rediscovering the civic and achieving better outcomes in public policy
- 'Knowledge Creation and Transfer Programme' for the North West Improvement Network (NWIN)
- Evaluation of the Young Movers Programme
- Hitting the Glass Ceiling?
- Prevention of Prolific and Priority Offending in Blackburn
- New Economic Geography with firm heterogeneity - MREC
- Strengthening the evidence base for the North West - MREC
- Consumption risk sharing across regions - MREC
- Regional coincident indicators of economic activity - MREC
Details of all IPEG's current and past research can be found on our research pages.