Valuing bureaucracy : the case for professional government / Paul R. Verkuil.
Publisher's description: Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated to private contractors without appropriate overs...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and overview
- The new learning on outsourcing sovereignty
- The growth of contracting out in government
- The consequences of federal contractor government
- State examples of government failure
- Why professionals in government matter
- The civil service and its reform
- Living with and improving the multi-sector workforce
- In sum : reprofessionalize government.