Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic
- ISBN-10
- 0674737733
- ISBN-13
- 9780674737730
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-23
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jon D. Michaels
Description
Americans hate bureaucracy—though they love the services it provides—and demand that government run like a business. Hence today’s privatization revolution. Jon Michaels shows how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government and consolidates state power in ways the Constitution’s framers endeavored to disaggregate.
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