Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates 1
5. I. Recent Developments
6. 1. Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction 23
7. 2. The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions 41
8. 3. The Federal Framework for Competing Commercial Work between the Public and Private Sectors 63
9. II. Cases and Critiques
10. 4. Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Environmental Decision Making 93
11. 5. Outsourcing Power: Privatizing Military Efforts and the Risks to Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy 110
12. 6. How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons 128
13. III. Responses and Reforms
14. 7. Achieving Contracting Goals and Recognizing Public Law Concerns: A Contracting Management Perspective 153
15. 8. Federal Contracting in Context: What Drives It, How to Improve It 192
16. 9. Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability 241
17. 10. Privatization and Democracy: Resources in Administrative Law 261
18. 11. Private Delegations, Due Process, and the Duty to Supervise 291
19. 12. Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern 310
20. 13. Public Values/Private Contract 335
21. Notes 363
22. Contributors 513
23. Index 515