Government by Contract : : Outsourcing and American Democracy /

Government by Contract : : Outsourcing and American Democracy / / ed. by Martha Minow, Jody Freeman.

The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service. These concerns, combined with rising confidence in private m...

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MitwirkendeR:
Aman, Alfred C.,
Blum, Mathew,
Chvotkin, Alan,
Dickinson, Laura A.,
Dolovich, Sharon,
Donahue, John D.,
Freeman, Jody,
Kelman, Steven J.,
Mendelson, Nina A.,
Metzger, Gillian E.,
Minow, Martha,
Novak, William J.,
Seifter, Miriam,
Soloway, Stan,
Verkuil, Paul R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Freeman, Jody,
Minow, Martha,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates
  • I. Recent Developments
  • 1. Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction
  • 2. The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions
  • 3. The Federal Framework for Competing Commercial Work between the Public and Private Sectors
  • II. Cases and Critiques
  • 4. Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Environmental Decision Making
  • 5. Outsourcing Power: Privatizing Military Efforts and the Risks to Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy
  • 6. How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons
  • III. Responses and Reforms
  • 7. Achieving Contracting Goals and Recognizing Public Law Concerns: A Contracting Management Perspective
  • 8. Federal Contracting in Context: What Drives It, How to Improve It
  • 9. Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability
  • 10. Privatization and Democracy: Resources in Administrative Law
  • 11. Private Delegations, Due Process, and the Duty to Supervise
  • 12. Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern
  • 13. Public Values/Private Contract
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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