ABSTRACT

This paper develops a critical understanding of municipal entrepreneurship support policies (MESPs) by investigating the strength of convergence and divergence trends with respect to neoliberal modes of governance in this policy field. To do so, it draws on a comparison between Milan and Barcelona’s MESPs and investigates the ways local policy actors interpret, invalidate or reproduce a neoliberal approach to entrepreneurship policies. Findings from the analysis of grey literature and interviews with policy actors and practitioners show the role municipal governments and local socio-economic and institutional conditions play in shaping compound and divergent approaches to MESPs. On this basis, the article reflects on the agency of local governments and the way urban policies and governance may deviate from neoliberal trajectories.

摘要

本文通过调查该政策领域新自由主义治理模式的趋同强度和趋异趋势，对市政创业支持政策 (MESP) 提出了批判性理解。为此，它借鉴了米兰和巴塞罗那的 MESP 之间的比较，并调查了当地政策参与者解释、否定或复制新自由主义创业政策方法的方式。对灰色文献的分析以及对政策参与者和从业者的访谈得出的结果表明，市政府和地方社会经济和制度条件在形成 MESP 的复合和不同方法方面发挥着作用。在此基础上，本文反思了地方政府的代理权以及城市政策和治理可能偏离新自由主义轨迹的方式。