🏆 Slide of the Year 2025 goes to @steffenhurka.bsky.social — absolutely unbeatable!

Currently preparing a lecture on policy implementation. This slide's for you, @supaproject.bsky.social :-)

Two SUPA @uio.no scholars made it into the TOP100 of #Khrono’s TOP500 list of Norway’s most productive researchers (2023–24)! 🏅 Yves Steinebach (40) 🏅 Miroslav Nemčok (82) www.khrono.no/disse-500-fo...

Don’t forget to submit your paper proposals for our EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 panel 👇 and join us in Belfast to discuss why rules keep growing – and what the implications are when they do. ⏰ Deadline in two days!

🛑 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...

We invite papers on: 🧩 Drivers and patterns of rule growth ⚙️ Implementation and administrative capacity 🔄 Deregulation and simplification efforts 📊 Methods for measuring complexity

📢 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]

Yves Steinebach is bringing policy talk to #Beijing! First stop: Tsinghua University @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social Topic: how to balance responsiveness and effectiveness in policymaking.

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

🧠 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...

🎉 As a partner of the @supaproject.bsky.social 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

🌍 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...

📜 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...)

Tired of ‘red tape’? UK planning reforms echo past failures like the "one-in, three-out" scheme. 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

The SUPA project has a new webpage! 🌐 👉 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!

🤔 What makes a law complex—and why does it matter? 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...

"‘Better deregulation’ doesn’t mean removing as many regulations as possible. It means eliminating the right ones while preserving effective rules," argue M. Hinterleitner, C. Knill @cknill.bsky.social & Y. Steinebach in a guest opinion for @nzz.ch 🔗 www.nzz.ch/meinung/dere...

Policies, rules & regulations keep on growing. 📈🚨 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...

On 10–11 Sept, I’ll be presenting at the University of Valencia workshop on Political Agency between Human & AI. Looking forward to debating how AI is reshaping politics, democracy & civil society. #AI #Democracy

💥Your country may have a deregulation potential of 36% - argue Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner & @cknill.bsky.social. Find out more 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💥 Publication ALERT 💥 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...

[1/6] What is SUPA about? A thread 🧵👇 The #SUPA Project addresses rule growth - the rapid expansion of laws and regulations - and its implications for governance. Through five research-focused Work Packages (WPs), we generate data, theory, and tools to help sustain an effective democracy.

🔍 Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Christoph Knill, Christina Steinbacher & @dionyszink.bsky.social: Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📈 More laws, more policies, more regulations. But administrations aren’t growing at the same pace 🚨 This mismatch risks poor services, unequal treatment & frustration. That’s where #SUPA comes in: from 2025–2028, we’ll study how to improve rule design & strengthen modern democracies 🏛️✨

Two inspiring days in Munich have come to an end. Thank you team LMU for hosting a SUPA kick-off, and to everyone participating. Look forward to seeing you soon! #supaproject #horizoneurope