Outsourcing Sovereignty. Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Verkuil, Paul R.

ISBN 10: 0521686881 / ISBN 13: 9780521686884

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007

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xiii + 232 pp.

Seller Inventory # 36426

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outsourcing Sovereignty. Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521686881
• ISBN 13: 9780521686884
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.

About the Author

Dr Paul R. Verkuil is currently Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, having formerly been the Dean of both Cardozo Law School and Tulane Law School. He is the President Emeritus of the College of William and Mary. He was a Special Master of the US Supreme Court in New Jersey v. New York. He is a leading scholar in administrative law and the author of over seventy articles on administrative, regulatory, and Constitutional law. He is the co-author of a leading treatise on administrative law and casebook in regulation and deregulation.