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.
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
📢 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/
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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.
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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
think.taylorandfrancis.com
This Green Talks Live webinar discusses OECD climate policy data and its unique insights to support policy evaluation.
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
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...
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
📅 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...
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...
🔥🔥🔥 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...
www.lmu.de
Political scientist Christoph Knill and lawyer Martin Burgi on the meaning and downsides of bureaucracy
