#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections - https://cup.org/4eXCHDX - @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, @jfdaoust.bsky.social & Piret Ehin #FirstView

We didn't see that coming 👀 😪 @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, @jfdaoust.bsky.social & Piret Ehin look at the 2016 surprise Estonian government shift to better understand how changes in government, seperate to elections, alter #DemocraticSafisfaction when winner/loser status changes

Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections

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Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue is now in print. A great collaborative effort on public opinion in welfare states—many thanks to everyone involved.

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎉 New issue: Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences. Guest Editors: @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Zhen Im, Maria Grasso, Franco Bonomi Bezzo 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🎉 New issue: Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences. Guest Editors: @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Zhen Im, Maria Grasso, Franco Bonomi Bezzo 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social presenting at Queen Mary University of London. New paper, with Prachee Arora and Yves Steinebach, develops a measure of social policy complexity—capturing how legislation becomes harder to implement for administrations and navigate for citizens.

We set ourselves a mammoth challenge: mapping policy changes down to the level of individual tasks and their allocation across actors. Such granular don’t exist. We take it VERY seriously. Therefore, our research assistants met to calibrate coding practices to ensure our data are reliable.

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Miroslav Nemčok (ISV) @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social 👉 Special Voting Arrangements 📗 Published in Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Special Voting Arrangements

AbstractSpecial voting arrangements intended to increase the convenience of voting—such as early voting, mobile ballot boxes, postal voting, remote online

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Exploring the link between social policies and political attitudes: M. Nemčok (@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, @uio.no) shared fresh insights with his colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social on SUPA’s ambition to examine how social policy complexity shapes citizens’ evaluation of political system.

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.

🚨 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 ⬇️

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 💻.

Our #SUPA team explained group-by-group 🧠

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

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? 💡

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.

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.

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🛑 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...

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.

Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences

The legitimacy and resilience of the welfare state rest on sustained public support. This introduction reviews the literature on welfare attitudes and public opinion formation on the welfare state....

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JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📚 In their intro to the Special Issue “Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences”, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo review how attitudes toward the welfare state form and evolve 👇 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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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

...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...

🌍 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...

📜 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 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!

🤔 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,

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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.

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...

💥 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...

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Introduction of 🤟 #SUPA 👇🚨⬇️

SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies@supaproject.bsky.social · 11mo ago

[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'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 · 11mo ago

📈 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 🏛️✨

📢 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/...

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 · 12mo ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 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