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Privatization and its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy


ISBN13: 9781108468763
Published: June 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £29.99



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In Privatization and Its Discontents, Matthew Titolo situates the contemporary debate over infrastructure in the long history of public–private governance in the United States. Titolo begins with Adam Smith's arguments about public works and explores debates over internal improvements in the early republic, moving to the twentieth-century regulatory state and public-interest liberalism that created vast infrastructure programs. While Americans have always agreed that creation and oversight of 'infrastructure' is a proper public function, Titolo demonstrates that public–private governance has been a highly contested practice throughout American history. Public goods are typically provided with both government and private actors involved, resulting in an ideological battle over the proper scope of the government sphere and its relationship to private interests. The course of that debate reveals that 'public' and 'private' have no inherent or natural content. These concepts are instead necessarily political and must be set through socially negotiated compromise.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , USA
Contents:
Introduction
1. Early liberalism, Adam Smith, and the seeds of the infrastructural state
2. Forging the infrastructural state:
1787–1837
3. 'A wilderness of turnpike gates:' roads and public authority in antebellum America
4. The panic of 1837, the infrastructure crash, and the rise of public purpose
5. The ground under our feet: the birth of public utilities
6. The death of laissez faire and the rise of infrastructure in the cold war