Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

8-2024

Abstract

In this article I examine recent theoretical and empirical exchanges around partnership-based urban governance between North Atlantic and Chinese academics and policymakers. I argue that the latest wave of de jure private–public partnerships in urban China reflects an ongoing process of governance rescaling beyond conventional entrepreneurial urbanism theory. I propose an analytical framework that foregrounds successive experimental partnerships as tensions between institutional continuity and change arising from rescaling. In this study I examine variegated actually existing partnerships in Jiyuan, China, to identify generalizable ideal types of partnership-driven governance rescaling. I conclude by suggesting to enhance the theorization of entrepreneurial urbanism by specifying a partnership-scale nexus, and assert that variegated partnerships in China have rewritten the rule but not the law of partnership.

Keywords

Public-private partnership (PPP), urban investment and development company (UIDC), enterprise zone, scale, varieties of entrepreneurial urbanism, state rescaling, China, Jiyuan

Discipline

Asian Studies | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Urban Studies and Planning

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volume

48

Issue

5

First Page

789

Last Page

814

ISSN

0309-1317

Identifier

10.1111/1468-2427.13266

Publisher

Wiley

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13266

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