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Many 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? This book argues that it cannot. It argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition - what philosophers centuries ago called 'a state of nature.'

Privatization. --- Contracting out --- Public contracts. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Government policy. --- Bernardo Zacka. --- Debra Satz. --- Governing by Contract. --- James Pattison. --- Jody Freeman. --- Kant. --- Martha Minow. --- Outsourcing and American Democracy. --- Public Service and Moral Agency. --- The Morality of Private War. --- When the State Meets the Street. --- Why Some Things Should not be for Sale. --- civil service. --- delegation of power. --- democracy. --- dependence and independence. --- discretion. --- for-profit firms. --- freedom. --- legitimacy. --- nonprofit organizations. --- political authority. --- private prisons. --- welfare provision.