Format:
1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten)
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9781315207216
Series Statement:
Studies in the sociology of law
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Part I Administrative Autonomy and Democracy -- Chapter 1 Government and governance: The constitutional politics of institutional neutrality -- 1.1 Introduction: the taxonomy of agencification -- 1.2 Neutral institutions within the constitutional state: the triad of powers -- 1.3 An American Novum: The "Headless Fourth Branch" -- 1.4 The imperatives of governance: agencification as phenomenon -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The people, the experts and the politicians: Is expertise a challenge to democratic legitimacy? -- 2.1 Introduction: independent agencies and the resuscitation of the debate about the role of experts in political decision-making -- 2.2 The source of the experts' authority -- 2.3 The problems with experts and political decision-making -- 2.4 Experts' authority - not a competing, but a corrective principle for democratic legitimacy? -- 2.5 The facts/values distinction and the classical argument against experts' authority in the field of political decisions -- 2.6 Not better decision-makers, but better informed decision-makers -- 2.7 Experience-based experts, or challenging the challenge of experts -- 2.8 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Rule of lawyers or rule of law?: On constitutional crisis and rule of law in Poland -- 3.1 Introduction: institutional problems -- 3.2 Law and politics: institutional change -- 3.3 Constitutional Tribunal -- 3.4 Post-communist legal tradition? -- 3.5 Legal constitutionalism -- Chapter 4 Agencification as European Union acquis -- 4.1 Accommodating independent agencies in member states' constitutional frameworks: EU obligations as a marginal source -- 4.2 Conferral and effet utile as limits to the duty to establish agencies in EU member states
Content:
Part II Case studies -- Chapter 5 The impact of national accountability agencies on the EU -- 5.1 Agencification of the EU -- 5.2 Agencification of member states -- 5.3 Agencification of candidate countries -- 5.4 Integrity and anticorruption agencies -- 5.5 Anti-corruption and the EU -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 De-politicization by Europeanization: The emergence of the fragmented state in South Eastern Europe -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Fragmentation and de-politicization of the state in SEE -- 6.3 The rise of the fragmented state in SEE -- 6.4 Towards de-fragmentation: Revival of informality, state capture and the deep state -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Hungary: Regulatory bodies in an illiberal democracy -- 7.1 Regulatory bodies under a liberal constitution: the development between 1990 and 2010 -- 7.2 Regulatory bodies in an illiberal democracy: developments since 2010 -- 7.3 Conclusions: illiberal state or regulatory capture? -- Chapter 8 Independence by law or by practice?: Taiwan's National Communications Commission and Central Bank -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Functions of and challenges to independence of independent regulatory commissions -- 8.3 Taiwan's National Communications Commission -- 8.4 Taiwan's Central Bank -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 State reform in Brazil: More of the same? -- Chapter 10 Implementation of separation of powers and scope of independence of politically neutral organs in Russia -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Specificities of the understanding of the principle of separation of powers in Russia -- 10.3 Reasons and purposes of independence -- 10.4 The scope of independence of independent organs -- 10.5 The internal relations in the systems of independent organs -- 10.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 11 Independent regulation in the contemporary Italian legal system -- 11.1 Introductory remarks
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138633674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1138633674
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138633674
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315207216
Author information:
Iancu, Bogdan 1973-
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