Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I On the Virtues of Public Provision (Agency-Based Approaches)
- Part II On the Virtues of Publicness as a Means to the Realization of Procedural Values (Process-Based Theories)
- 8 Privatizing Social Services
- 9 Privatization, Constitutional Conservatism, and the Fate of the American Administrative State
- 10 Privatization and the Intimate Sphere
- Part III Outcome-Based Theories: On the Virtues and Vices of Public Provision as a Means to Promote Efficiency and Justice
- Index
9 - Privatization, Constitutional Conservatism, and the Fate of the American Administrative State
from Part II - On the Virtues of Publicness as a Means to the Realization of Procedural Values (Process-Based Theories)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I On the Virtues of Public Provision (Agency-Based Approaches)
- Part II On the Virtues of Publicness as a Means to the Realization of Procedural Values (Process-Based Theories)
- 8 Privatizing Social Services
- 9 Privatization, Constitutional Conservatism, and the Fate of the American Administrative State
- 10 Privatization and the Intimate Sphere
- Part III Outcome-Based Theories: On the Virtues and Vices of Public Provision as a Means to Promote Efficiency and Justice
- Index
Summary
The American administrative state has, of late, been under siege, attacked on two fronts. The war on one front is somewhat parochial – a pitched battle over US constitutional law. It is waged largely by conservative movement lawyers who view the modern administrative state as an affront to the constitutional separation of powers.
The war on the other front has much greater transnational relevance. This second fight pits defenders of modern bureaucratic governance against those who see public administration as hopelessly inefficient, rigid, and unaccountable. This latter group of critics present themselves as more or less comfortable with the constitutionality of the administrative state – and thus claim to raise only technocratic objections.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization , pp. 144 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021