Constitutional coup : privatization's threat to the American republic / Jon D. Michaels.
Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Rejecting bureaucracy--but not the goods and services the welfare state provides--Americans have demanded that government be made to run like a business. Hence today's privatization revolution. But as Jon D. Michaels shows, separating the...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Pax Administrativa's rise : modern public administration and the administrative separation of powers
- 1. Historic privatization and the premodern administrative state
- 2. The rise and reign of Pax Administrativa
- 3. The constitutional and normative underpinnings of the twentieth-century administrative state
- Part II. The privatization revolution : privatization, businesslike government, and the collapsing of the administrative separation of powers
- 4. The beginning of the end : disenchantment with Pax Administrativa and the pivot to privatization
- 5. The mainstreaming of privatization : an agenda for all seasons and all responsibilities
- 6. Privatization as a constitutional, and constitutionally fraught, project
- Part III. Establishing a Second Pax Administrativa
- 7. The separations of powers in the twenty-first century
- 8. Recalibrating the relationship between and among the constitutional and administrative rivals
- 9. Judicial custodialism
- 10. Legislative custodialism.