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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 Mller (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 Brger*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)
