The Consulting Trap: How Professional Service Firms Hook Governments and Undermine Democracy

Author:   Chris Hurl ,  Leah B. Werner
Publisher:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
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9781773636672


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   11 April 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Chris Hurl ,  Leah B. Werner
Publisher:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Imprint:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9781773636672


ISBN 10:   1773636677
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   11 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Chris Hurl is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. His research explores the influence of the private sector in public policymaking and service delivery. He is the co-editor of two books. Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service investigates the politics of public sector restructuring under neoliberalism. Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era looks at the influence of professional service firms in public policy-making across the globe. He is the co-editor of Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service and Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era. His research has appeared in Environment and Planning, Studies in Political Economy, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Labour/Le Travail and the Journal of Canadian Studies. Leah B. Werner is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She has done research on the role of professional service firms in financializing public infrastructure as well as on basic income, activism and work in Canada. She has written about basic income and on the influence of private consulting firms in public policymaking during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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