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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-makers2.7 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 source4.2 Conferral and effet utile as limits to the duty to establish agencies in EU member states; 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 Europe6.1 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
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-makers2.7 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 source4.2 Conferral and effet utile as limits to the duty to establish agencies in EU member states; 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 Europe6.1 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