Good Administration and the Council of Europe

This book is about the existence and effectiveness of written and unwritten standards of good administration developed within the framework of the Council of Europe (CoE). It analyses the (possible) impact of these standards on and their added value for the domestic administrative law of the CoE’s forty-seven Member States (representing more than 800 million people). This book argues that these standards, called here the ‘pan-European general principles of good administration’.