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SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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SUPA tackles administrative overburdening in advanced democracies, where rule growth outpaces capacity. Its insights aim to boost efficiency. Funded by Horizon Europe. https://www.supa.uio.no/
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Should laws expire by default?
FDP @freiedemokraten.bsky.social leader Christian Dürr @christianduerr.bsky.social suggests letting all German laws passed since 2000 lapse unless reintroduced. A striking response to regulatory overload.

Source at @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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At DFØ, Yves and Tuva @tuvamolde.bsky.social discussed how “smart regulation” and policy portfolios can help identify deregulation potential—by spotting instruments that add burden without improving effectiveness.
January 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Great session at the XIII Workshop on Empirical Political Science at @ub.edu! Prachee Arora showed how hidden compliance costs - below reporting thresholds- still shape policy outcomes. Thanks to discussants Jaime Bordel @jaimebgl.bsky.social and Pau Vall-Prat for the insightful feedback!
December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Legislative complexity on the rise: a new study in @jeppjournal.bsky.social shows EU acts are fewer, but denser with regulatory obligations.

Valuable work that complements what we’re exploring in SUPA.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Exploring the link between social policies and political attitudes: M. Nemčok (@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, @uio.no) shared fresh insights with his colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social on SUPA’s ambition to examine how social policy complexity shapes citizens’ evaluation of political system.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Yves and Tuva met with the Norwegian Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance. Yves presented how AI-driven policy portfolios can help identify smart deregulation opportunities. Exciting conversation and promising next steps.
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🚨 CfP 🚨
At ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social GC 2026 (Kraków, 8.-11. 9. 2026) Y. Steinebach and A. Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social are convening a panel on "Overburdened Bureaucracies" - how public administrations cope with rising demands and limited capacity.

🚨 Submit your abstract by 17 Dec!
Details below ⬇️
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A rare sight 🚨: the entire SUPA consortium gathered on one screen for a coordination meeting.
Big ideas, good vibes — and just a hint of technical drama 💻.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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📢 CfP: Regulatory Growth in the EU

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]
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The European Citizen Action Service @ecas-europe.bsky.social connects the project to citizens, helping us understand how rule growth affects everyday life.

Team: Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social, Claire Morot‑Sir, Nicolò Triacca.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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At LMU Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the team identifies administrative “Achilles’ heels” and develop proposals for adaptive responses.

Team: C. Knill @cknill.bsky.social, A. Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social, F. Findeisen, D. Zink @dionyszink.bsky.social .
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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At the University of Oslo @uio.no, we map how growing rule volumes reshape public administration: who implements what, and how responsibilities shift.

Team: Y. Steinebach, M. Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social , M. Povitkina @mpovitkina.bsky.social, L. Gulli, M. Imran, T. Molde.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social , the focus is on endogenous rule growth: legal design, linguistic and relational indicators, regulatory discretion — tracing first-, second-, and third-order rules.

Team: Nir Kosti.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Södertörn Uni. @sodertornshogskola.bsky.social studies how rule-offsetting schemes work, combining theory, coding, and interviews with policymakers & civil society. Goal: effective and legitimate rule design.

Team: Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social , Miranda Thulin, Swapnil Vashishtha.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The University of Barcelona @ub.edu team turns archives, APIs, web-scraped material, and legal documents into machine-readable data using text-as-data and NLP — building a dataset on rule growth across the EU.
Team: Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, David García García @davidgg.bsky.social , Prachee Arora.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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What brings the SUPA scholars together? Turning laws into data to ask why rules multiply, how to streamline without hurting democracy, and how to help policymakers make sense of it.

In the posts below ⬇️👇🔽 we show how each partner tackles a different angle. It really fits together, doesn’t it? 💡
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🛑 The EU’s Better Regulation agenda risks cutting rules that protect workers, consumers & the environment.
A policy brief by Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social calls for stronger oversight, transparency & reclaiming regulation: library.fes.de/pdf-files/bu...
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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📢 CfP | EPSS 2026 @epssnet.bsky.social (Belfast, 18–20 June 2026)
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]
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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After two great talks, Yves has two days off to immerse himself in Chinese culture and enjoy the wonderful hospitality of his hosts 🇨🇳
October 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Next stop on Yves’s Beijing tour was Beijing Normal University! Great energy and thoughtful debate yesterday.
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Yves Steinebach is bringing policy talk to #Beijing!
First stop: Tsinghua University @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social
Topic: how to balance responsiveness and effectiveness in policymaking.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Congratulations to our consortium leader, Yves Steinebach, on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Today he delivered his inaugural lecture, “The Balance Challenge: Navigating Policy Responsiveness and Effectiveness,” at the @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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🧠 Are democracies trapped by their own complexity—or strengthened by it? New study from the SUPA team in @jeppjournal.bsky.social shows that openness builds resilience, not overload.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🌍 ANALYZING (CLIMATE) POLICY PORTFOLIOS
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...
October 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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📜 One way governments try to cut regulatory burden is #offsetting: for every new rule, an old one (or more) must go.

🗺️ 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...)
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM