The 2026 SG-EU @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Biennial Conference
1–3 July | Università di Catania
Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social and Nir Kosti invite papers on the drivers and consequences of EU rule growth.
📬 Submit by 8 Dec 2025 → [email protected]
The 2026 SG-EU @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Biennial Conference
1–3 July | Università di Catania
Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social and Nir Kosti invite papers on the drivers and consequences of EU rule growth.
📬 Submit by 8 Dec 2025 → [email protected]
Thank you, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social and the #EUPLEX team, for providing such valuable to demonstrate how rising legislative complexity imposes real challenges on public administration and governance in modern democracies.
💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.
📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data
Thank you, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social and the #EUPLEX team, for providing such valuable to demonstrate how rising legislative complexity imposes real challenges on public administration and governance in modern democracies.
In the posts below ⬇️👇🔽 we show how each partner tackles a different angle. It really fits together, doesn’t it? 💡
In the posts below ⬇️👇🔽 we show how each partner tackles a different angle. It really fits together, doesn’t it? 💡
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🏅 Yves Steinebach (40)
🏅 Miroslav Nemčok (82)
www.khrono.no/disse-500-fo...
🏅 Yves Steinebach (40)
🏅 Miroslav Nemčok (82)
www.khrono.no/disse-500-fo...
⏰ Deadline in two days!
Why do rules keep growing—and what happens when they do?
Join our panel “Rules Growth: Dynamics, Drivers, and Implementation Challenges in Advanced Democracies”.
📅 Deadline: 5 November 2025
📧 Submit proposals to [email protected]
⏰ Deadline in two days!
A policy brief by Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social calls for stronger oversight, transparency & reclaiming regulation: library.fes.de/pdf-files/bu...
A policy brief by Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social calls for stronger oversight, transparency & reclaiming regulation: library.fes.de/pdf-files/bu...
🧩 Drivers and patterns of rule growth
⚙️ Implementation and administrative capacity
🔄 Deregulation and simplification efforts
📊 Methods for measuring complexity
Why do rules keep growing—and what happens when they do?
Join our panel “Rules Growth: Dynamics, Drivers, and Implementation Challenges in Advanced Democracies”.
📅 Deadline: 5 November 2025
📧 Submit proposals to [email protected]
🧩 Drivers and patterns of rule growth
⚙️ Implementation and administrative capacity
🔄 Deregulation and simplification efforts
📊 Methods for measuring complexity
Why do rules keep growing—and what happens when they do?
Join our panel “Rules Growth: Dynamics, Drivers, and Implementation Challenges in Advanced Democracies”.
📅 Deadline: 5 November 2025
📧 Submit proposals to [email protected]
Why do rules keep growing—and what happens when they do?
Join our panel “Rules Growth: Dynamics, Drivers, and Implementation Challenges in Advanced Democracies”.
📅 Deadline: 5 November 2025
📧 Submit proposals to [email protected]
First stop: Tsinghua University @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social
Topic: how to balance responsiveness and effectiveness in policymaking.
First stop: Tsinghua University @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social
Topic: how to balance responsiveness and effectiveness in policymaking.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
project, we’re proud to announce the launch of the official website!
ECAS’s role in this project is to support crowdsourcing efforts, organise events, & share project findings with CSOs and national partners.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/ZXqO1EJ
project, we’re proud to announce the launch of the official website!
ECAS’s role in this project is to support crowdsourcing efforts, organise events, & share project findings with CSOs and national partners.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/ZXqO1EJ
New paper in @jcpaicpa.bsky.social introduces an analytical approach to systematically map what governments do on (climate) policy along two dimensions:
🎯 Targets – goals governments address
🛠️ Instruments – how they pursue them
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1387...
New paper in @jcpaicpa.bsky.social introduces an analytical approach to systematically map what governments do on (climate) policy along two dimensions:
🎯 Targets – goals governments address
🛠️ Instruments – how they pursue them
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1387...
🗺️ The map and table show which OECD countries have used these schemes.
👉 Can you spot your country?
(from Steinebach, Hinterleitner & Fernández-i-Marín doi.org/10.1111/puar...)
🗺️ The map and table show which OECD countries have used these schemes.
👉 Can you spot your country?
(from Steinebach, Hinterleitner & Fernández-i-Marín doi.org/10.1111/puar...)
One of our rerearches in progress shows why they fail:
➡️ Narrow Focus
➡️ Weak Enforcement
➡️ Political Reality
Result? Rules keep growing. Lasting reform needs smarter governance for true growth.
#SUPA
One of our rerearches in progress shows why they fail:
➡️ Narrow Focus
➡️ Weak Enforcement
➡️ Political Reality
Result? Rules keep growing. Lasting reform needs smarter governance for true growth.
#SUPA
👉 www.supa.uio.no/english/inde...
There you’ll find:
🌍 project background & goals
👩🔬 team members & institutional partners
📢 news, events & publications (with more coming soon!)
Check it out — and let us know what you think!
👉 www.supa.uio.no/english/inde...
There you’ll find:
🌍 project background & goals
👩🔬 team members & institutional partners
📢 news, events & publications (with more coming soon!)
Check it out — and let us know what you think!
In his talk, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social (a close friend of SUPA) explains:
📏 how to measure legislative complexity
⚖️ why it varies across laws & policy areas
🏛️ how it shapes institutions & implementation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gclb...
In his talk, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social (a close friend of SUPA) explains:
📏 how to measure legislative complexity
⚖️ why it varies across laws & policy areas
🏛️ how it shapes institutions & implementation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gclb...
🔗 www.nzz.ch/meinung/dere...
🔗 www.nzz.ch/meinung/dere...
Have you ever wondered how quick that growth is? 🤔
Hinterleitner, Knill @cknill.bsky.social & Steinebach in @reggovjournal.bsky.social empirically demonstrate the swelling complexity of legislative rulebooks!
📚 Read: doi.org/10.1111/rego...
Have you ever wondered how quick that growth is? 🤔
Hinterleitner, Knill @cknill.bsky.social & Steinebach in @reggovjournal.bsky.social empirically demonstrate the swelling complexity of legislative rulebooks!
📚 Read: doi.org/10.1111/rego...
argue Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner & @cknill.bsky.social. Find out more 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
argue Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner & @cknill.bsky.social. Find out more 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Steinebach, Fernández-i-Marín, Hinterleitner & Knill examine #environmental policy in 21 democracies and find:
- 1/3 of measures could be streamlined
- Effectiveness preserved (sometimes improved!)
Not crude cost-cutting ➡️ Smarter rules > fewer rules.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Steinebach, Fernández-i-Marín, Hinterleitner & Knill examine #environmental policy in 21 democracies and find:
- 1/3 of measures could be streamlined
- Effectiveness preserved (sometimes improved!)
Not crude cost-cutting ➡️ Smarter rules > fewer rules.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...