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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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
Taking action on empowerment: Spring Keynote Conference. Liz Richardson of IPEG to present (see news page) - 12/05/08
Who Delivers Public Services (see news page) - 01/05/08
IPEG research to be presented at the National University of Singapore (see news page) - 25/04/08
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.