🚨🎉Announcing our project's first publication🎉🚨 "Laws as Blades: A Conceptual Framework of Legislative Design" is now available open access in @policysciences.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu doi.org/10.1007/s110....

@kaplaner.bsky.social and @steffenhurka.bsky.social had the privilege to present and discuss the DEMOLAW project at the University of Aarhus. DEMOLAW thanks @rsenninger.bsky.social and the entire department of political science for the kind invitation, the hospitality, and the great feedback!

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Constantin Kaplaner @kaplaner.bsky.social , Cristoph Knill & Yves Steinbach (ISV) 🔎 Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States 📖 Open access in JPART doi.org/10.1093/jopa...

The EPA’s Acid Rain Program shows how more policy can often mean less enforcement write ‪@kaplaner.bsky.social‬ and @cknill.bsky.social of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Yves Steinebach of the University of Oslo blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025 DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs

This week, we're in Madrid for #EPSA2025 where @kaplaner.bsky.social will present our first empirical research paper "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Caputring Legislative Design Choice in Democratic Systems" on Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05).

Want to know what I've been up to in 2025? This is the new ERC project working with @steffenhurka.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social & @steffiru.bsky.social

Meet the DEMOLAW-Team! Constantin Kaplaner (@kaplaner.bsky.social), Stefanie Rueß (@steffiru.bsky.social), myself, Amelie Sieber and Mike Cowburn (@mikecowburn.bsky.social). So much looking forward to the years ahead! Follow us at @demolaw.bsky.social!

Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes. Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP! Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Come and join us! We are recruiting a researcher (with PhD) for a three-year position as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 16 December 2024.

Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers

Promising news for the EU electoral connection! 🗳️🇪🇺 Our study on the 2024 EP election shows that voters are engaging with information relevant to the European Parliament's actual powers.

Hello BlueSky, we're here! And we get started with a pluralistic starter pack with researchers doing methods in social sciences! Self-nominations are more than welcome go.bsky.app/Ht7XKWk

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

Thrilled to share that our article (with C. Knill & Y. Steinebach) is now published open access at @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1080/1350... If you're into policy integration, take a look. We map intersectoral patterns in ~90k legal documents covering 3 decades of EU policy making.

Important EUPLEX update! The EUPLEX dataset now contains data on Commission proposals AND final texts. 30 year time period: 1993 - 2023 Download the dataset at euplex.org/data Read the data intro article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kaplaner.bsky.social

The European Research Council awarded me a Consolidator Grant worth almost 2 million € for the DEMOLAW project. What a huge honor and privilege. I'm grateful to so many people who provided me with feedback and support along the way - you know who you are.