Comparative administrative law: an introduction&Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter L.Lindseth 1
PART 1 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 23
1 Revolution, Rechtsstaat and the Rule of Law: historical reflections on the emergence of administrative law in Europe&Bernardo Sordi 23
2 Explaining administrative law: reflections on federal administrative law in nineteenth century America&Jerry L.Mashaw 37
3 Testing Weber: compensation for public services, bureaucratization, and the development of positive law in the United States&Nicholas Parrillo 47
4 Administrative law and the public regulation of markets in a global age&Marco D’Alberti 63
5 Administrative law in East Asia: a comparative-historical analysis&John Ohnesorge 78
6 Administrative state socialism and its constitutional aftermath&Kim Lane Scheppele 92
PART 2 CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 117
7 Written constitutions and the administrative state: on the constitutional character of administrative law&Tom Ginsburg 117
8 Good-bye, Montesquieu&Bruce Ackerman 128
9 Comparative positive political theory&M.Elizabeth Magill and Daniel R.Ortiz 134
10 Overseeing the executive: Is the legislature reclaiming lost territory from the courts?&Tom Zwart 148
11 ‘Creatures of the state’: regulatory federalism, local immunities, and EU waste regulation in comparative perspective&Fernanda G.Nicola 161
PART 3 ADMINISTRATIVE INDEPENDENCE 185
12 The promise of comparative administrative law: a constitutional perspective on independent agencies&Daniel Halberstam 185
13 The puzzle of administrative independence and parliamentary democracy in the common law world: a Canadian perspective&Lorne Sossin 205
14 Presidential dominance from a comparative perspective: the relationship between the executive branch and regulatory agencies in Brazil&Mariana Mota Prado 225
15 Experimenting with independent commissions in a new democracy with a civil law tradition: the case of Taiwan&Jiunn-rong Yeh 246
16 Understanding independent accountability agencies&John M.Ackerman 265
17 Independent administrative authorities in France: structural and procedural change at the intersection of Americanization, Europeanization and Gallicization&Dominique Custos 277
18 A comparison of US and European independent agencies&Martin Shapiro 293
PART 4 TRANSPARENCY, PROCEDURE, AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY-MAKING 309
19 Comparing regulatory oversight bodies across the Atlantic: the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the US and the Impact Assessment Board in the EU&Jonathan B.Wiener and Alberto Alemanno 309
20 Towards a third generation of administrative procedure&Javier Barnes 336
21 Participation and expertise: judicial attitudes in comparative perspective&Catherine Donnelly 357
22 Administrative agencies as creators of administrative law norms: evidence from the UK, France and Sweden&Dorit Rubinstein Reiss 373
PART 5 ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 389
23 The origins of American-style judicial review&Thomas W.Merrill 389
24 The powers and duties of the French administrative judge&Jean Massot 415
25 Judicial review and merits review: comparing administrative adjudication by courts and tribunals Peter Cane 426
26 Judicial review of questions of law: a comparative perspective Paul Craig 449
27 Judicial deference to legislative delegation and administrative discretion in new democracies: recent evidence from Poland, Taiwan, and South Africa Cheng-Yi Huang 466
28 Where too little judicial deference can impair the administrative process: the case of Ukraine Howard N.Fenton 482
PART 6 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE 493
A. The Boundary between Public and Private 493
29 Three questions of privatization Daphne Barak-Erez 493
30 Contracting out and ‘public values’: a theoretical and comparative approach Jean-Bernard Auby 511
31 Organizational structure, institutional culture and norm compliance in an era of privatization: the case of US military contractors Laura A.Dickinson 524
32 Financial crisis and bailout: legal challenges and international lessons from Mexico, Korea and the United States Irma E.Sandoval 543
33 The role of the State in (and after) the financial crisis: new challenges for administrative law Giulio Napolitano 569
B. Administration Beyond the State: The Case of the European Union 595
34 A restatement of European administrative law: problems and prospects George A.Bermann 595
35 Adversarial legalism and administrative law in the European Union R.Daniel Kelemen 606
36 Supranational governance and networked accountability structures: Member State oversight of EU agencies Johannes Saurer 618
37 Individual rights and transnational networks Francesca Bignami 632
Index 639