Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era : Public Policy, Private Expertise
This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective. Drawing on cases studies from around the world, researchers from different disciplines-including sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, history, and management studies-...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edición: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Acceso en liña: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Springer e-books science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era, Texte imprimé, 9783030721275 • Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era, Texte imprimé, 9783030721299 • Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era, Texte imprimé, 9783030721305 |
Table des matières:
- 1 Introduction: The rise of professional service firms as public policy actors 2 America First: How consultants got into the public sector 3 Taming uncertainty: Climate policymaking and the spatial politics of privatized advice 4 Who drives India's smart cities? Understanding the role of consulting firms in the Smart Cities Mission 5 Boutique consultancy and personal trust: Advising on cities in Moscow 6 Everywhere from Copenhagen: Method, storytelling, and comparison in the globalization of public space design 7 International consultancy firms and African states: New Debt Bonds 8 'The DNA of Government': Professional Service Firms, calculative technologies and the politics of municipal benchmarking 9 Connecting local government with global finance: Professional service firms as agents of financialization 10 'Infrastructure' and the Big 4: Public-private partnerships, corridors, and the expansion of capital 11 The corporate takeover of public policy: The case of public private partnerships in Britain 12 Camouflaged privatization: The influence of the Fratzscher Commission and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Berlin's schools 13 Hegemonic privatization and its discontents: Reflections on the statecraft of contract-based local governance in England 14 Expert advice? Assessing the role of the state in promoting privatized planning 15 Conflicting interests: Professional planning practice in publicly-traded firms 16 The governance of management consultancy use: Practices, problems and possibilities.