Purchasing submission : conditions, power, and freedom / Philip Hamburger.
Hamburger, Philip, 1957- author.
2021
KF450.D85 H36 2021 (Map It)
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Author Hamburger, Philip, 1957- author.
Title Purchasing submission : conditions, power, and freedom / Philip Hamburger.
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Call Number KF450.D85 H36 2021
ISBN 9780674258235 (hardcover)
0674258231 (hardcover)
Description x, 320 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No. (OCoLC)1235871593
Summary "Government's use of largess to secure consent to conditions all too often serves as an illicit pathway of power. This mode of control is part of the contemporary reality of American governance, and it therefore needs to be recognized alongside more familiar sorts of power, such as rule through law and administrative power"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I. The problem. Poorly understood
Examples
Regulatory conditions
II. Unconstitutional pathway. Spending
Divesting and privatizing government powers
Short-circuiting politics
Denying procedural rights
Federalism
III. Unconstitutional restrictions. Consent no relief from constitutional limits
Consent within and beyond the Constitution
IV. Federal action. Varieties of federal action
Force and other pressure amid consent
Irrelevance of force and other pressure
V. Beyond consent. Regulatory extortion
Regulatory agents.

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