The Rise of the Unelected

Cambridge University Press
9780521872393 - The Rise of the Unelected - Democracy and the New Separation of Powers - by Frank Vibert
Table of Contents

List of boxes, tables and figures		page ix
Acknowledgements		x
	Introduction	1
1	The world of the unelected	18
	The diversity	19
	Common features	30
2	The driving forces	34
	The shift to a service economy	34
	Managerial explanations	35
	The new separation of powers	38
3	The advantages of the new separation of powers	42
	Independent information gatherers	42
	Confidence in public information	45
	The inseparability of value judgements?	48
	Unbundling institutional responsibility for policy	53
4	The challenge to conventional democratic theory	55
	The erosion of participatory democracy	55
	Gaps in the rule of law	60
	Undermining deliberative democracy	64
5	Adapting traditional approaches	69
	The democratic ‘overhead’	70
	Constitutionalism	77
	Pragmatism	81
6	The new separation of powers and the advent of the informed citizen	86
	Conflicts of interest and the separation of powers	86
	The radicalism of the new separation of powers	92
	Rescuing the conventions of representative democracy	94
7	Informed citizens and the changing role of traditional institutions	101
	The changing nature of problem-solving	102
	The arena function	107
	Inquiry	112
8	The legitimacy of the new branch	114
	The analogy with the judiciary	115
	The principles and procedures of the new branch	121
	The distinctiveness of the new branch’s own standards	126
9	The new separation of powers and the European Union	129
	The path to power sharing	130
	The shift towards the new separation of powers	135
	Combining different principles of democratic organisation	138
10	International institutions: blurring the boundaries	144
	Mobilising empirical knowledge	145
	Expertise and the incentives to blur	148
	Procedures	153
	Principles	155
	Legitimising the United Nations	156
	The democratisation of global politics	162
11	Conclusions: the accountability of the new branch	165
	Accountability and the new checks and balances	169
	The reform agenda	176
	The least dangerous branch?	181
	Appendix: List of unelected bodies referred to in the text	183
	Bibliography	189
	Index	198

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