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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 2010s
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, 1st Printing
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780674737730
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674737733
ISBN-13
9780674737730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237617618
Product Key Features
Book Title
Constitutional Coup : Privatization's Threat to the American Republic
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Constitutional, Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, Public Policy / Social Policy, American Government / General, Government & Business
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2017-015512
Reviews
Jon Michaels has identified a key aspect of the modern state, its increasing delegation to private businesses of fundamental tasks historically associated with governance. What is fresh and compelling about his book is his elaboration of the truly constitutional dimensions of these developments., In his book, Constitutional Coup , [Michaels] argues that our professional bureaucracies are essential to America's democracy... The true strength of Michaels's book is reminding us why we have administrative government in the first place... Michaels provides a useful reframing of what business-like government really means., I encourage anyone interested in the administrative state, separation of powers, or privatization to read this book., A truly fundamental contribution to constitutional thought, especially important at a moment when the Trump presidency is escalating the privatization of American government., Constitutional Coup offers a learned, lucid, and important argument about the relationship between privatization, constitutional structure, and public values. Defenders and critics of the contemporary administrative state alike will profit from engaging with Michaels's innovative work.
Dewey Decimal
338.973/05
Synopsis
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 state from its public servants, practices, and institutions does violence to our Constitution, and threatens the health and stability of the Republic. Constitutional Coup puts forward a legal theory that explains the modern welfare state as a worthy successor to the framers' three-branch government. What legitimates the welfare state is its recommitment to a rivalrous system of separation of powers, in which political agency heads, career civil servants, and the public writ large reprise and restage the same battles long fought among Congress, the president, and the courts. Privatization now proclaims itself as another worthy successor, this time to an administrative state that Americans have grown weary of. Yet it is a constitutional usurper. Privatization dismantles those commitments to separating and checking state power by sidelining rivalrous civil servants and public participants. Constitutional Coup cements the constitutionality of the administrative state, recognizing civil servants and public participants as necessary--rather than disposable--components. Casting privatization as an existential constitutional threat, it underscores how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government--and consolidates state power in ways both the framers and administrative lawyers endeavored to disaggregate. It urges--and sketches the outlines of--a twenty-first-century bureaucratic renaissance., 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., 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 state from its public servants, practices, and institutions does violence to our Constitution, and threatens the health and stability of the Republic. Constitutional Coup puts forward a legal theory that explains the modern welfare state as a worthy successor to the framers' three-branch government. What legitimates the welfare state is its recommitment to a rivalrous system of separation of powers, in which political agency heads, career civil servants, and the public writ large reprise and restage the same battles long fought among Congress, the president, and the courts. Privatization now proclaims itself as another worthy successor, this time to an administrative state that Americans have grown weary of. Yet it is a constitutional usurper. Privatization dismantles those commitments to separating and checking state power by sidelining rivalrous civil servants and public participants. Constitutional Coup cements the constitutionality of the administrative state, recognizing civil servants and public participants as necessary-rather than disposable-components. Casting privatization as an existential constitutional threat, it underscores how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government-and consolidates state power in ways both the framers and administrative lawyers endeavored to disaggregate. It urges-and sketches the outlines of-a twenty-first-century bureaucratic renaissance.
LC Classification Number
HD3850.M53 2017
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