David Beel is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is part of the Future Economies Research Cluster. Martin Jones is Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Staffordshire University and a founding Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ian Rees Jones is Professor of Sociological Research at Cardiff University and Director of the WISERD ESRC Civil Society Research Centre.
Conceptually and empirically rich, this book provides an essential contribution to understand the evolution of the city-regions and devolution agenda, exposing the governance, socio-economic and democratic challenges that underpin it. Arianna Giovannini, De Montfort University