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

This book informs 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. The on-the-ground original research provides a strong foundation for the directions the case law could take and small- and larger-scale institutional reforms that balance the goals of democracy, accountability, and efficiency.

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.