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/
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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New in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: @dionyszink.bsky.social introduces *organizational corrosion* — the slow, self-reinforcing decay of public agencies under sustained overload. Illustrated with England's Environment Agency (deep into it) vs Ireland's EPA (largely spared).
📖 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Two intense days in Oslo with the full SUPA consortium in one place 📸
Four panels of work-in-progress on the core questions driving the project — partners from Oslo, LMU Munich, Universitat de Barcelona, Södertörn, Zeppelin & Aarhus.
More to come 👇
A few snapshots from Yves Steinebach's talk at Nordisk Administrativt Forbund 📸
A great deep dive into policy overload — why modern democracies keep stacking rules they can't actually implement, and what targeted simplification could look like.
📢 CfP: "Politics of regulatory simplification in the EU" in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
Guest editors: Steffen Hurka, Nir Kosti & Brigitte Pircher
Abstracts by 22 July 2026 👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/politics-of-regulatory-simplification-in-the-eu/
Two presentations, one big question: why do good political intentions get lost somewhere between ambition and reality?
Today at the PBO seminar (UiO), Y. Steinebach and M. Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social presented their recent research.
Thanks to the PBO group at @uio.no for great feedback.
ERC @erc.europa.eu spotlights Christoph Knill @cknill.bsky.social (LMU Munich @lmu.de) on policy accumulation — the very question SUPA was set up to tackle.
Governments keep adding rules; capacity to implement them doesn't keep pace.
Worth a read: erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
📅 7 May: Yves Steinebach (University of Oslo @uio.no) gives a talk at Nordisk Administrativt Forbund on policy overload: why modern democracies keep producing more rules than they can implement.
In Norwegian — kudos, Yves!
www.nafnet.no/event-detail...
🔥🔥🔥 Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social, Knill @cknill.bsky.social & Steinebach in @wepsocial.bsky.social: policymakers are cognitively wired to add rules, not remove them. A survey experiment with 1,454 Norwegian politicians shows the bias is persistent and hard to debias.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Missed Yves Steinebach's appearance at the OECD Green Talks LIVE? Yves spoke on assessing policy effectiveness in an era of relentless policy growth.
🎦 The recording is out: oecd.org/en/events/2026/05/do-climate-policies-deliver-evidence-on-emissions-and-carbon-leakage.html
A political scientist and a legal scholar walk into a conversation about #bureaucracy. No, really – it's an insightful read on why rules keep growing and how to prune them back without breaking what they protect.
👇 Knill @cknill.bsky.social & Burgi for @caslmu.bsky.social @lmu.de
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy on The politics of regulatory simplification in the European Union: actors, processes and outcomes
