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 fra...

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