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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reframing the Outsourcing Debates -- I. Recent Developments -- 1. Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction -- 2. The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions -- 3. The Federal Framework for Competing Commercial Work between the Public and Private Sectors -- II. Cases and Critiques -- 4. Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Environmental Decision Making -- 5. Outsourcing Power: Privatizing Military Efforts and the Risks to Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy -- 6. How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons -- III. Responses and Reforms -- 7. Achieving Contracting Goals and Recognizing Public Law Concerns: A Contracting Management Perspective -- 8. Federal Contracting in Context: What Drives It, How to Improve It -- 9. Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability -- 10. Privatization and Democracy: Resources in Administrative Law -- 11. Private Delegations, Due Process, and the Duty to Supervise -- 12. Outsourcing and the Duty to Govern -- 13. Public Values/Private Contract -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index