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 Indias 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 Berlins 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.