Since 1980s, the importance of the third sector has grown steadily. Complementing the changes in state governance, the new functions acquired by the civil society organizations (CSOs) in the field of service delivery have redefined the public-private relationships in an unprecedented way....

Today, it seems that independent regulatory authorities have almost become a natural institutional form for regulatory governance. This trend has economic and political roots, and numerous normative arguments for creating independent regulatory authorities have been put forward in the...