The consulting trap : how professional service firms hook governments & undermine democracy / Chris Hurl & Leah B. Werner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurl, Chris, 1978- author.

Werner, Leah B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--Case studies.

Political planning.

Consulting firms--Case studies.

Consulting firms.

Privatization--Case studies.

Privatization.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

How professional service firms hook governments and undermine democracy

Place of Publication:

Halifax, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

"The Consulting Trap will change how you think about democracy, public accountability, and private power. In this original, deeply researched, and accessible work of public sociology, Hurl and Werner take readers through the twists and turns of a woefully under-examined public secret: that governments around the world have become enmeshed with powerhouse consultancies like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG, and Deloitte. As these huge private concerns take ever more responsibility for the administration of core public services, they are tasked with orchestrating tax avoidance for the wealthy and engineering austerity for the rest. Drawing on real world examples, The Consulting Trap reveals how these firms leverage social networks, mine data, and establish policy pipelines that facilitate the quick diffusion of ideas across jurisdictions. Crucially, this book doesn't stop at critique but offers readers strategies for how these firms can be resisted using people's audits, access to information requests, social network analyses and more."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What Is the Consulting Trap?

Actors: The Rise of Transnational Professional Service Firms

Programs: Evading, Auditing, Financializing, Privatizing

Strategies: Networking, Institutionalizing, Commodifying, Brokering

Resistance: Challenging TPSFs

Escaping the Consulting Trap.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hurl, Chris, 1978- Consulting trap.

ISBN:

9781773636672

1773636677

OCLC:

1405366637

Publisher Number:

90101358886