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Constitutional coup : privatization's threat to the American republic /

Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Rejecting bureaucracy--but not the goods and services the welfare state provides--Americans have demanded that government be made to run like a business. Hence today's privatization revolution. But as Jon D. Michaels shows, separating the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Michaels, Jon D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.