This article explores how the appeal to depoliticized expertise worked to legitimize
increased supervisory and executive power to the European Border and Coast Guard …

Bureaucrats must balance neutral competence with responsiveness to external demands.
As external demands are simultaneous and multidimensional, this study analyzes …

This article argues that policy-makers' non-expert or 'folk'ideas can affect policy outcomes in
a way that challenges the assumption of economic policy-making being guided by expert …

In many European countries, semi-autonomous agencies have been created in health policy
to safeguard general public interests. In executing their tasks, these agencies need to deal …

In this paper, we explore how multiple accountability (MA) can enable an independent
regulatory agency to deal with multiple conflicting public values in a complex and politically …

In political discourse, it is common to claim that non-majoritarian institutions are legitimate
because they are technical and value-free. Even though most analysts disagree, many …

Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe,
this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy …

Sažetak European Union's energy law stipulates numerous obligations with the intention of
achieving a desired level of independence of national regulatory authorities. This article …

This paper estimates the impact of reforming competition authorities on perceived antitrust
effectiveness using methods of causal inference. We study how 20 countries reformed their …

How is the power of independent agencies legitimized? This is a central question in modern
democratic societies. Earlier research has privileged technical expertise as the predominant …