Constitutional coup: privatization's threat to the American republic

Part I. Pax Administrativa's rise : modern public administration and the administrative separation of powers

1. Historic privatization and the premodern administrative state

2. The rise and reign of Pax Administrativa

3. The constitutional and normative underpinnings of the twentieth-century administrative state

Part II. The privatization revolution : privatization, businesslike government, and the collapsing of the administrative separation of powers

4. The beginning of the end : disenchantment with Pax Administrativa and the pivot to privatization

5. The mainstreaming of privatization : an agenda for all seasons and all responsibilities

6. Privatization as a constitutional, and constitutionally fraught, project

Part III. Establishing a Second Pax Administrativa

7. The separations of powers in the twenty-first century

8. Recalibrating the relationship between and among the constitutional and administrative rivals

9. Judicial custodialism

10. Legislative custodialism.