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/
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 💻.
Big ideas, good vibes — and just a hint of technical drama 💻.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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 💻.
Big ideas, good vibes — and just a hint of technical drama 💻.
📢 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]
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
📢 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]
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]
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.
Team: Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social, Claire Morot‑Sir, Nicolò Triacca.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
Team: Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social, Claire Morot‑Sir, Nicolò Triacca.
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 .
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
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 .
Team: C. Knill @cknill.bsky.social, A. Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social, F. Findeisen, D. Zink @dionyszink.bsky.social .
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.
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
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.
Team: Y. Steinebach, M. Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social , M. Povitkina @mpovitkina.bsky.social, L. Gulli, M. Imran, T. Molde.
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.
Team: Nir Kosti.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
Team: Nir Kosti.
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.
Team: Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social , Miranda Thulin, Swapnil Vashishtha.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
Team: Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social , Miranda Thulin, Swapnil Vashishtha.
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.
Team: Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, David García García @davidgg.bsky.social , Prachee Arora.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
Team: Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, David García García @davidgg.bsky.social , Prachee Arora.
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? 💡
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
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? 💡
In the posts below ⬇️👇🔽 we show how each partner tackles a different angle. It really fits together, doesn’t it? 💡
🛑 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...
📢 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]
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
📢 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]
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]
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
After two great talks, Yves has two days off to immerse himself in Chinese culture and enjoy the wonderful hospitality of his hosts 🇨🇳
Next stop on Yves’s Beijing tour was Beijing Normal University! Great energy and thoughtful debate yesterday.
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Next stop on Yves’s Beijing tour was Beijing Normal University! Great energy and thoughtful debate yesterday.
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...
🌍 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...)
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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Rules often beget rules. Therefore, WP3 (Endogenous Rule Growth) studies how legal design itself fuels expansion. By tracing first-, second-, and third-order rules, the team shows how legal texts spiral into complex webs.
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
Rules often beget rules. Therefore, WP3 (Endogenous Rule Growth) studies how legal design itself fuels expansion. By tracing first-, second-, and third-order rules, the team shows how legal texts spiral into complex webs.
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Rules often beget rules. Therefore, WP3 (Endogenous Rule Growth) studies how legal design itself fuels expansion. By tracing first-, second-, and third-order rules, the team shows how legal texts spiral into complex webs.
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
Rules often beget rules. Therefore, WP3 (Endogenous Rule Growth) studies how legal design itself fuels expansion. By tracing first-, second-, and third-order rules, the team shows how legal texts spiral into complex webs.
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
[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.
📈 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