SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
@supaproject.bsky.social
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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📈 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 🏛️✨
🏆 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 :-)
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🏆 Slide of the Year 2025 goes to @steffenhurka.bsky.social — absolutely unbeatable!
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Currently preparing a lecture on policy implementation. This slide's for you, @supaproject.bsky.social :-)
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
🏅 Yves Steinebach (40)
🏅 Miroslav Nemčok (82)
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
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
🏅 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!
⏰ Deadline in two days!
📢 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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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!
⏰ 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...
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
🛑 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...
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
🧩 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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We invite papers on:
🧩 Drivers and patterns of rule growth
⚙️ Implementation and administrative capacity
🔄 Deregulation and simplification efforts
📊 Methods for measuring complexity
🧩 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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📢 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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
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 nir.kosti@lmu.de
Yves Steinebach is bringing policy talk to #Beijing!
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.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Yves Steinebach is bringing policy talk to #Beijing!
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.
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
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...
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🧠 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...
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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🎉 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
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
October 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🎉 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
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...
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
🌍 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...
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...)
🗺️ 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
📜 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...)
🗺️ 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
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
Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda
The government has confirmed further reforms to overhaul the planning system and put growth at the heart of the statutory consultee system.
www.gov.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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!
👉 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
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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!
👉 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...
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
September 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🤔 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...
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...
🔗 www.nzz.ch/meinung/dere...
Bürokratie abbauen, aber mit System
Deregulieren mit System: Wie Politik Bürokratie sinnvoll reduzieren kann
www.nzz.ch
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"‘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...
🔗 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...
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...
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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...
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...
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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
September 10, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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
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💥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....
argue Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner & @cknill.bsky.social. Find out more 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
💥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....
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...
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
September 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
💥 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...
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.
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.
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
[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.
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.
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🔍 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....
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🔍 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....
🧷 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 🏛️✨
September 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📈 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
March 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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