Table of Contents
Introduction - Bogdan Iancu and Elena Simina Tănăsescu
Part I Administrative Autonomy and Democracy
1. Government and Governance: The Constitutional Politics of Institutional Neutrality - Bogdan Iancu
2. The People, the Experts, and the Politicians: Is Expertise a Challenge to democratic Legitimacy? - Lucian Bojin
3. Rule of Lawyers or Rule of Law? On Constitutional Crisis and Rule of Law in Poland - Adam Czarnota
4. Agencification as European Union Acquis - Jacques Ziller
Part II Case Studies
5. The Impact of National Accountability Agencies on the EU - Elena Simina Tănăsescu
6. De-politicization by Europeanization: the emergence of the fragmented state in South Eastern Europe - Martin Mendelski
7. Hungary: Regulatory Bodies in an Illiberal Democracy - Attila Vincze
8. Independence by Law or by Practice? Taiwan’s National Communications Commission and Central Bank - Jiunn-rong Yeh and Wen-Chen Chang
9. The State Reform in Brazil: More of the Same? - Gilberto Bercovici
10. Implementation of Separation of Powers and Scope of Independence of Politically Neutral Organs in Russia - Sergei A. Belov
11. Independent Regulation in the Contemporary Italian Legal System - Giovanni Frazzica and Antonio La Spina
Afterword: The Need for Independent Regulatory Authorities in the Perspective of Contemporary Constitutionalism - Antonio La Spina