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SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 2d

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.

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 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 ⬇️

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 10d

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 💻.

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · 19d

Our #SUPA team explained group-by-group 🧠

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 19d

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? 💡

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 19d

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.

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · 19d

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? 💡

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Nov 3

Made it to the 82nd spot on Khrono’s TOP500 list of Norway’s most productive researchers (2023–2024). Grateful for the great colleagues, collaborations, and research environment I found at @uio.no that made it possible.
🔗 www.khrono.no/disse-500-fo...

Disse 500 forskerne publiserer mest i Norge

— Antall artikler er ikke så viktig, sier Ole Andreassen, Norges mest publiserende forsker.

www.khrono.no

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Oct 29

🛑 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...

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Oct 21

Our introduction to to the special issue on the formation of public opinion in the welfare state is now out in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

📖 Freely available: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

A big thanks to Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo for outstanding co-editorship.

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Oct 20

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.

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...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Oct 9

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

Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social · Oct 9

...in contrast to the study above, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social @hannawass.bsky.social and Johanna Peltoniemi find that in Finland, the implementation of postal voting had a negligible effect on turnout across low-participation areas

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Oct 5

🌍 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...

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Oct 3

📜 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...)

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 24

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!

SUPA.html - Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

www.supa.uio.no

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 16

🤔 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...

Policy complexity - Measurement, Origins and Consequences, Steffen Hurka,

YouTube video by Theories of Regulation & Governance

www.youtube.com

Tadeas Cely @celytadeas.bsky.social · Sep 12

In the working paper (with @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social and others), which will soon be available, we show that such politicization can harm democratic norms and fuel affective polarization. However, we also find that it does not translate into greater support for political violence.

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 5

💥 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...

Towards ‘better deregulation’: from crude cost-cutting to the targeted pruning of policy activities

Deregulation is a prominent theme, but difficult to implement. Current approaches either focus only on ‘new’ rules without considering already existing policies, or fail to differentiate between ef...

doi.org

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Sep 3

Introduction of 🤟 #SUPA 👇🚨⬇️

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 3

[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.

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 3

[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.

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Sep 1

SUPA's social media accounts are now active, and posting is about to begin. Follow us for thoughtful insights on administrative overburdening and science-based suggestions on how to address it!

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 1

📈 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 🏛️✨

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies @supaproject.bsky.social · Sep 1

📈 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 🏛️✨

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV), Hanna Wass @hannawass.bsky.social & Juho Vesa
🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State
📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Aug 12

As global population growth starts to hit the brakes, Rein Taagepera and I consider what this means for our future and look for lessons from the past.
🔽👇⬇️

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 12

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 As #PopulationGrowth slows, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social & Rein Taagepera draw on a striking demographic stall 2,000 years ago that preceded political fragmentation and imperial collapse.
🌍 Can modern states withstand the pressures of a post-growth world?
👉 buff.ly/BQCQ8Vj

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 12

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 As #PopulationGrowth slows, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social & Rein Taagepera draw on a striking demographic stall 2,000 years ago that preceded political fragmentation and imperial collapse.
🌍 Can modern states withstand the pressures of a post-growth world?
👉 buff.ly/BQCQ8Vj

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Jul 26

What’s the app. share of invitations you send to your network (i.e., scholars you know from somewhere) as opposed to total strangers?

Just thinking that acceptance rates may decline over time, as you might resist the temptation to keep reaching out to friends.

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is very interesting! Thank you, Gregorio, for your fine contribution to the special issue!

Gregorio Buzzelli @gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social · Jul 23

Rearmament challenges modern welfare states, pitting military vs. social spending.
In our new #OA article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Stefano Sacchi, Caroline de la Porte and I show that citizens prioritize the welfare state—though important divisions emerge
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off

The intensification of military conflict is leading to sharp increases in military spending across advanced democracies. As public budgets are constrained, the welfare state is a candidate for savi...

www.tandfonline.com

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Jul 22

Special shout-out to @celytadeas.bsky.social, the driving force behind this work, its promotion, and outreach to journalists - just too humble to be the one interviewed.

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