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

ISBN-13: 9780190632762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 376 str.

Athanasios Psygkas

Recenzje

This is a clever book with many layers. It is about the EU Constitution, about EU and comparative administrative law, about regulation and about telecommunication. It probably took someone of Greek descent to raise a counter-intuitive argument about democracy in the EU. The comparative analysis in this book confirms that the classical idea representative of democracy founded on the predominant role of parliamentary assemblies is much closer to myth than to actual practice, and this already the case in the Member States. ... The author is also very convincing in showing that EU law has infused high doses of participation in the Member States.

O autorze

Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas is Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. He has published in the areas of comparative public law, policy and governance, and advised NGOs on these issues. He holds JSD and LLM degrees from Yale Law School, where he was a Fulbright scholar, as well as an LLB and LLM in Public Law and Political Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Akis has held fellowships at the European University Institute, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, and Yale Law School.