Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674737733 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pojanowski, Notre Dame Law School) . What is fresh and compelling about his book is his elaboration of the truly constitutional dimensions of these developments. Defenders and critics of the contemporary administrative state alike will profit from engaging with Michaels's innovative work. (Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance)Constitutional Coup offers a learned, lucid, and important argument about the relationship between privatization, constitutional structure, and public values. (Bruce Ackerman, author of The Decline and Fall of the American Republic)Jon Michaels has identified a key aspect of the modern st
Casting privatization as an existential constitutional threat, it underscores how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes governmentand consolidates state power in ways both the framers and administrative lawyers endeavored to disaggregate. Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Privatization now proclaims itself as another worthy successor, this time to an administrative state that Americans have grown weary of. 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. It urgesand sketches the outlines ofa twenty-first-century bureaucratic renaissance.. Constitutional Coup puts forward a legal theory that explains the modern welfare state as a wor
Michaels is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. . Jon D