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Government by congtract : Outsourcing and American democracy - London Har University Press 2009 - 528p vii

Contents
Acknowledgments;
Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates [Jody Freeman and Martha Minow;
I.Recent Developments;

1.Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction William J. Novak;
2.The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions John D. Donahue;
3.The Federal Framework for Competing Commercial Work between the Public and Private Sectors [Mathew Blum];
II.Cases and Critiques;
4. Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Environmental Decision Making [Miriam Seifter];
5. Outsourcing Power: Privatizing Military Efforts and the Risks to Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy [Martha Minow];
6. How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons [Sharon Dolovich]
II.Responses and Reforms;
A.Don’t Increase Regulation;
7. Achieving Contracting Goals and Recognizing Public Law Concerns: A Contracting Management Perspective [Steven J. Kelman];
8. Federal Contracting in Context: What Drives It, How to Improve It [Stan Soloway and Alan Chvotkin];
B.Use Existing Tools
9. Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability [Nina A. Mendelson];
10. Privatization and Democracy: Resources in Administrative Law [Alfred C. Aman, Jr.];
C.Press Constitutional Restrictions;
11. Private Delegations, Due Process, and the Duty to Supervise [Gillian E. Metzger];
12. Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern [Paul R. Verkuil];
13. Public Values/Private Contract [Laura A. Dickinson];
Notes;
List of Contributors;
Index



ISBN: 9780674032088

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Contracting Out - U S A2. Privatisation - U S A

Dewey Class. No.: 352.530973 FRE / FRE