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In this Handbook, distinguished experts in the field of administrative law discuss a wide range of issues from a comparative perspective. The book covers the historical beginnings of comparative administrative law scholarship, and discusses important methodological issues and basic concepts such as administrative power and accountability.

The purpose of this book is to study comparative administrative law in the main EU states and the United States of America and Canada and then to provide proposals for the modernization of Romanian public administration in order to increase administrative convergence and to better meet the needs of citizens. In this book, the author aims to realize a dynamic approach by looking at the contemporary challenges and perspectives of the future of the contemporary administrations and on the other hand the modifications to be made at the level of the Romanian administrative law to increase the degree

The concept of administrative law -- Principles of administrative law -- Administrative organization and civil service -- Administrative acts and other activities of the administration -- Judicial Review -- Other types of control -- Administrative liability -- European influence on Czech administrative law.

The principal-agent model of administrative law sees bureaucrats as imperfectly supervised agents of their political principals and courts as a tool used by the latter to monitor and check the former. This paper compares how the class of plaintiffs authorized to bring suit against governmental bodies has been defined in three countries where one should expect to find significant barriers to administrative litigation—Japan, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China. Although these three Asian countries have traditionally been one-party dominated states, we do observe substantial differences in how legislatures and courts have addressed the issue of standing over time. It is possible to explain these variations by examining three factors. First, the local governments are, in some countries, sub-entities or agents of the national government. Thus, administrative law might be used to regulate the acts of local governments in addition to agencies, leading to broader notions of standing. Second, the level of political competition could influence the doctrine of standing by incentivizing political incumbents to secure alternative avenues for challenging the policies of their successors. Third, the legal process is not the only mechanism available for monitoring the behavior of agents. For example, the Administrative Management Agency, xinfang system, and "Meet the People Sessions" offer channels for non-judicial resolution of administrative disputes in Japan, China, and Singapore respectively. Yet courts and other monitoring mechanisms are not perfect substitutes; the different quality and quantity of the information collected, the creation of legal rules binding future decisions, and transaction costs of overriding judicial outcomes distinguish between them. This last factor is, in general, not easily resolved in one direction or another. The larger conclusion drawn is that Positive Political Theory, while insightful, may not always give an elegant structure to comparative studies in administrative law.