- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates [Jody Freeman and Martha Minow]
- I. Recent Developments
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- 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]
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- II. Cases and Critiques
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- 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]
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- III. 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]
- A. Don’t Increase Regulation
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index


Government by Contract
Outsourcing and American Democracy
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Publication Date: 02/28/2009