Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era

Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era

Public Policy, Private Expertise

Vogelpohl, Anne; Hurl, Chris

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

09/2022

349

Mole

Inglês

9783030721305

15 a 20 dias

483

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1. Introduction: The rise of professional service firms as public policy actors



Chris Hurl (Concordia University, Canada) and Anne Vogelpohl (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)



Section One: Strategies and practices of professional service firms



2. America First: How consultants got into the public sector



Matthias Kipping (York University, Canada)



3. Taming uncertainty: Climate policymaking and the spatial politics of privatized advice



Svenja Keele (University of Melbourne, Australia)



Section Two: Advising cities



4. Who drives India's smart cities? Understanding the role of consulting firms in the Smart Cities Mission



Uttara Purandare (IIT Bombay-Monash University Research Academy)



5. Boutique consultancy and personal trust: Advising on cities in Moscow



Daria Volkova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)



6. Everywhere from Copenhagen: Method, storytelling, and comparison in the globalization of public space design



Eugene McCann (Simon Fraser University) and Lise Mahieus (Simon Fraser University)



Section Three: Finance and financialization



7. International consultancy firms and African states: New Debt Bonds



Janet Roitman (New School for Social Research, USA)



8. 'The DNA of Government': Professional Service Firms, calculative technologies and the politics of municipal benchmarking



Chris Hurl (Concordia University)



9. Connecting local government with global finance: Professional service firms as agents of financialization



Sebastian Moeller (University of Bremen, Germany)



Section Four: Privatization and public private partnerships



10. 'Infrastructure' and the Big 4: Public-private partnerships, corridors, and the expansion of capital



Nick Hildyard (Corner House, UK)



11. The corporate takeover of public policy: The case of public private partnerships in Britain



Jean Shaoul (University of Manchester, UK)



12. Camouflaged privatization: The influence of the Fratzscher Commission and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Berlin's schools



Laura Valentukeviciute (Gemeingut in Buerger*innenhand, Germany)



Section Five: Professional service firms and administration: Entrenching private expertise



13. Hegemonic privatization and its discontents: Reflections on the statecraft of contract-based local governance in England



Mike Raco (University College London, UK)



14. Expert advice? Assessing the role of the state in promoting privatized planning



Neha Sami (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) and Shriya Anand (Indian Institute for Human Settlements)



Section Six: Regulating relationships



15. Conflicting interests: Professional planning practice in publicly-traded firms



Orly Linovski (University of Manitoba)



16. The governance of management consultancy use: Practices, problems and possibilities



Andrew Sturdy (University of Bristol, UK)
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Professional Service Firms (PSFs);Globalization;Policy mobilities;Privatization;Consulting;Neoliberalism;public policy actors;policymaking;climate consulting;professional services;Smart Cities Mission;international consultancy;placemaking;Municipal Reference Model;public-private partnerships;Big Four firms;PricewaterhouseCoopers;management consultancy;Development Finance