This book investigates whether the decentralization of administrative power can effectively mitigate the European Union's democratic deficit. Athanasios Psygkas, a legal scholar, utilizes a comparative framework to analyze how administrative processes in France, Greece, and the United Kingdom interact with EU-level governance. He argues that shifting the focus from purely representative institutions to administrative procedures offers a viable pathway toward a more robust democratic surplus.

Experts in European law and political science recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the debate on EU institutional legitimacy. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is tailored for scholars and practitioners of administrative law.