Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates
I. Recent Developments
1. Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction
2. The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions
3. The Federal Framework for Competing Commercial Work between the Public and Private Sectors
II. Cases and Critiques
4. Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Environmental Decision Making
5. Outsourcing Power: Privatizing Military Efforts and the Risks to Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy
6. How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons
III. Responses and Reforms
7. Achieving Contracting Goals and Recognizing Public Law Concerns: A Contracting Management Perspective
8. Federal Contracting in Context: What Drives It, How to Improve It
9. Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability
10. Privatization and Democracy: Resources in Administrative Law
11. Private Delegations, Due Process, and the Duty to Supervise
12. Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern
13. Public Values/Private Contract
Notes
Contributors
Index