Riforme sistemiche e resistenze all’innovazione: le trasformazioni del diritto amministrativo austriaco

Abstract

Systemic Reforms and Resistance to Innovation: The Transformation of Austrian Administrative Law - The paper analyses the transformation of Austrian administrative law through the lens of the development of supranational constitutionalism and it deals with those reforms related to the simplification paradigm. After addressing the milestones of the theory of “Administrative State” which are still deeply rooted in Austrian legal culture, the paper focuses on the innovations to administrative proceedings with particular regard to digitalization. Then it goes on to illustrate the “revolutionary” reform of the system of protection of individual citizens vis a vis the public administration, which now configures a jurisdictional model. The paper also touches upon other changes, less significant (deregulation) or still in progress (revision of the allocation of competences within the federal state, privatization and transparency).