The Duties of Private Providers

Abstract

This chapter shifts from independent private donors to contracted private providers. It looks at strong reasons to extend to the internal conduct of many private organizations the same demands of political justice and democratic governance that many political philosophers would instead confine to political institutions alone. It also talks about the transitional duty of democratic justice for nonpolitical associations that pursue justice as government's proxies. The chapter explains the collapse of a division of moral labor between political institutions and nonpolitical associations comes at great costs for the members' associative independence. It analyzes strong reasons that are grounded on associative independence that limit privatization and reestablish a sharper division of both institutional and moral labor between the political and the associational.