Constitutional Coup : : Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic / / Jon D. Michaels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Michaels, Jon D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 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 --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982611; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982611
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jon D. Michaels.

Americans hate bureaucracy—though they love the services it provides—and demand that government run like a business. Hence today’s privatization revolution. Jon Michaels shows how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government and consolidates state power in ways the Constitution’s framers endeavored to disaggregate.