Outsourcing sovereignty
Subtitle: why privatization of government function threatens democracy and what we can do about it
By: Paul R. Verkuil.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521867047; 9780521686884
Subjects: Contracting out -- United States; Privatization -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why outsourcing threatens democracy; title: The outsourcing of sovereignty; title: Case study: public and private approaches to transportation security; title: The public/private distinction; title: The case for constitutional governance; title: Statutory and administrative limitations on private delegations; title: Outsourcing government services : contract theory and practice; title: Structural reforms to government; title: Conclusions (wherein the principal instructs her agents).