1st Edition

Public Administration and Expertise in Democratic Governments Comparative Public Law in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Susan Rose-Ackerman Copyright 2024
276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection deals with challenges confronting public law and public administration in twenty-first century democracies across the world. It draws together contributions from leading scholars, examining cutting-edge topics, and projecting the scholarship forward. It emphasizes the importance both of justifying executive policymaking to citizens and of drawing on bureaucratic expertise and... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface

1.      Introduction

Peter L. Strauss,  

2.      What’s Democratic about Administration?

Blake Emerson

3.      The Lawfulness of Public Law in Germany and United States

Jud Mathews & Joshua Spannaus

4.      Administrative Resilience

Stefanie Egidy

5.      Bureaucrats as Temporary Leaders

Anne Joseph O’Connell

6.      The Creation of the Modern American Civil Service and the (Constitutional) Limits of German Influence

 Matthias Rossbach

7.      The Neoliberal Turn of Contemporary French Administrative Law

Thomas Perroud

8.             Law and Monetary Policy: From Limited Judicial Review to Parliamentary Scrutiny in the European Monetary Union

Joana Mendes

9.      Administrative Democracy and Federalism: The US, the EU, and Canada

 Athanasios Psygkas

10.  From Elections to Autocracy: Can Strategic Decentralization Bring Us Back?

Maciej Kisilowski

11.  Judicial Review of the Executive in Hyper-Presidential Regimes

Edgar Andrés Melgar & Susan Rose-Ackerman

12.  Equal versus Efficient Security against Crime: Differences and Unintended Consequences

Hans-Bernd Schäfer

13.  Administration and Democracy

Peter Lindseth

Biography

Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Yale University. She has published widely on comparative administrative law and the political economy of corruption.