The Privatized State (eBook)

Chiara Cordelli (Autor)

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2020
356 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21173-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less freeMany governmental functions today-from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation-are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot.In this boldly provocative book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition-what philosophers centuries ago called "e;a state of nature."e; Developing a compelling case for the democratic state and its administrative apparatus, she shows how privatization reproduces the very same defects that Enlightenment thinkers attributed to the precivil condition, and which only properly constituted political institutions can overcome-defects such as provisional justice, undue dependence, and unfreedom. Cordelli advocates for constitutional limits on privatization and a more democratic system of public administration, and lays out the central responsibilities of private actors in contexts where governance is already extensively privatized. Charting a way forward, she presents a new conceptual account of political representation and novel philosophical theories of democratic authority and legitimate lawmaking.The Privatized State shows how privatization undermines the very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that is more democratic and just.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Accountability • active citizenship • activism • Adjudication • Administrative Discretion • administrative law • arbitration • A Theory of Justice • attempt • authorization • Basic structure doctrine • beneficiary • Bernardo Zacka • bureaucrat • Citizenship • civil service • Civil Society • Collective Action • Consideration • Contemporary Society • Contract • Corruption • Cost–benefit analysis • Debra Satz • de facto • deference • delegation of power • Deliberation • Democracy • dependence and independence • Determination • Directive (European Union) • Discretion • distributive justice • Employment • Equal Opportunity • Executive agency • Explanation • for-profit firms • Fraud • freedom • Freedom of association • Funding • Governance • Governing by Contract • Government • government agency • implementation • Impossibility • Independent contractor • Institution • Ipso facto • James Pattison,The Morality of Private War • Jody Freeman • John Rawls • Joseph Raz • Jurisdiction • Kant • Lawmaking • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (political) • Legitimation • Martha Minow • Morality • Negotiation • Neoliberalism • Nondelegation doctrine • Nonprofit Organization • Nonprofit organizations • Obligation • obstacle • of education • Organizational Culture • Outsourcing • Outsourcing and American Democracy • philanthropy • Policy • political authority • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politics • Precedent • Prerogative • presumption • prima facie • private prison • private prisons • Privatization • Provision (accounting) • Provision (contracting) • public administration • Public Policy • Public Service and Moral Agency • Public sphere • Regulation • Representative Agent • Requirement • Restorative Justice • right to property • Rob Reich • Rule of Law • salary • Separation of Powers • Slavery • Sovereignty • Standing (law) • State of affairs (sociology) • State of nature • State (polity) • Statute • Tax • The Administrative State • Unilateralism • welfare • Welfare Provision • When the State Meets the Street • Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21173-6 / 0691211736
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21173-2 / 9780691211732