Abstract
This paper explores claims the new regionalism opens the way to new and fruitful considerations of the relationship between economic and social policy at the regional level. It does so with particular reference to England’s Regional Development Agencies, who having been criticised for lacking the social aspects necessary to foster cohesion and increase competitiveness, have since entertained divergent and seemingly contradictory perspectives on integrating economic with social policy. Focusing on the experience of North West England, the paper serves to not only remind that the regional state is constrained by the national state, but illustrates how a theory of metagovernance is essential to analysing the capacity of regional institutions to revitalise the economic and social condition of their region.
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