Constitutional Coup : : Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic / / 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 fra...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |