Wu, Fulong;
Deng, Handuo;
Feng, Yi;
Wang, Weikai;
Wang, Ying;
Zhang, Fangzhu;
(2025)
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China.
Urban Studies
10.1177/00420980251333304.
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Abstract
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialization, pervasive state roles in state capitalism, and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends. Previously, China witnessed private entrepreneurship, economic devolution, and housing commodification at the turn of the millennium. They have been portrayed as urban or state entrepreneurialism. These governance features have been transformed as China entered Xi Jinping’s new era. This paper revisits the transformations in post-pandemic China and finds that rising state capital, re-centralization of spatial governance, and party-state co-governance represent the shift from entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft. The new trends broadly echo changing capital-state-society relationships in the world today. Beyond market rationality, the state mobilizes capital and society to pursue strategic intentionality. The transformation has been exacerbated by pandemic urgency, postpandemic economic downturn, and greater geopolitical tension.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00420980251333304 |
| Publisher version: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/usj# |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | China, urban governance, statecraft, entrepreneurialism, state capitalism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206711 |
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