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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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