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Breaking the Constitutional Silence: the Public Services Industry and Government
Author(s) -
Johal Sukhdev,
Moran Michael,
Williams Karel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12252
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , constitution , silence , outsourcing , government (linguistics) , law and economics , business , public administration , economics , political science , law , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , aesthetics
Analysis of constitutional arrangements has been too narrow in the past, confined to examination of explicitly governmental arrangements. But corporate enterprises perform such important public functions, especially in the age of outsourcing, that they need to be incorporated into the constitution. The article develops this argument and proposes a framework for such incorporation.