From the "Democratic Deficit" to a "Democratic Surplus" —— Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe

----- 从民主赤字到民主剩余：在欧洲建设行政民主

ISBN: 9780190632762 出版年：2017 页码：377 Psygkas, Athanasios Oxford University Press

This document includes the Introduction and Table of Contents of the book. Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit," the book argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies. This is because EU law has created entry points for stakeholder participation in the operation of national regulators; these avenues for public participation were formerly either not open or not institutionalized to this degree. By focusing on how the EU formally adopted procedural mandates to advance the substantive goal of creating an internal market in electronic communications, I demonstrate that EU requirements have had significant implications for the nature of administrative governance in the member states. This book aims to inform current understandings of regulatory agency operations and institutional design by drawing on an original dataset of public consultations and interviews with agency officials, industry and consumer group representatives in Paris, Athens, Brussels, and London.