Wir freuen uns schon sehr darauf, am Donnerstag @ascharpf.bsky.social an der ZU Friedrichshafen begrüßen zu dürfen! Er wird sein neues Buch "Making a Career in Dictatorship" (OUP) vorstellen. Anmeldungen sind noch möglich 👇

The Department of Political and Social Sciences at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen is looking for a Professor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology 👇

zeppelinuniversitaet.softgarden.io/job/64017103...

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Yves Steinebach and I published a blog post on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, in which we highlight the key messages of our recent article on legal complexity and policy implementation in the EU in @climate-policy.bsky.social (available open access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....).

Yves Steinebach and I published a blog post on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, in which we highlight the key messages of our recent article on legal complexity and policy implementation in the EU in @climate-policy.bsky.social (available open access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....).

On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵

Legal complexity undermines effective climate policy implementation

🔓️ : EU #climatepolicy has become increasingly more ambitious and more legally complex, which has reduced effective implementation, even in countries with strong administrative capacity, find @steffenhurka.bsky.social and Yves Steinebach @supaproject.bsky.social 🇪🇺

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Measuring factional conflict: A comparative approach using party leadership contests - Mike Cowburn, Amelia Malpas, Rachel M Blum, 2026 Intra-party factions have attracted increased scholarly attention in the twenty-first century as party systems have fragmented. Yet, we lack a comparative appro...

🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨

Measuring Factional Conflict: A Comparative Approach Using Party Leadership Contests

w/ @malpas.bsky.social & @blumrm.bsky.social

Out now in Party Politics. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354...

(🧵 below)

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

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New article in @climate-policy.bsky.social with Yves Steinebach:

"Legal complexity undermines effective climate policy implementation"

Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our results thus highlight the importance of designing climate legislation that is both ambitious and workable, ensuring that bold commitments translate into tangible action.

...and that more administrative capacity is generally helpful, but does not offset the costs generated by more complex laws

We then show that more complex legislation is associated with higher probabilities of infringement proceedings...

In the article, we first provide some descriptive evidence of how the complexity of EU climate legislation has increased over time

New article in @climate-policy.bsky.social with Yves Steinebach:

"Legal complexity undermines effective climate policy implementation"

Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amelie Sieber and I are happy to share that our review “𝗚𝘂𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” has been accepted for publication in volume 22 of the 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘸 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

Author accepted manuscript: www.steffenhurka.com/uploads/5/4/...

Just Out! New Issue of Policy Sciences (Dec 2025).

link.springer.com/journal/1107...

Articles on complexity science, transgender policy, policy learning, law, leadership, soveriegnty, buzzwords, minipublics & wildlife

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social.

A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

Amelie Sieber and I are happy to share that our review “𝗚𝘂𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” has been accepted for publication in volume 22 of the 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘸 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

Author accepted manuscript: www.steffenhurka.com/uploads/5/4/...

📢 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 → nir.kosti@lmu.de

Wow 🤯 Rules keep on growing.
Thank you, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social and the #EUPLEX team, for providing such valuable to demonstrate how rising legislative complexity imposes real challenges on public administration and governance in modern democracies.

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!

💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

📄 For more information on the dataset and the variables, read our 2022 article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In general, the EP and the Council tend to add complexity to the initial Commission proposal during legislative negotiations.

Below are some time trends from 1993 to 2025 for six of our indicators. The complexity of both Commission proposals and final EU laws has been increasing drastically over time, but some indicators seem to have reached a plateau in recent years.

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!

💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design - Policy Sciences Legislation shapes every aspect of public life and stands at the core of governance. Despite sustained attention on a variety of aspects of legislation, we still lack a comprehensive and integrated fr...

🚨🎉Announcing our project's first publication🎉🚨

"Laws as Blades: A Conceptual Framework of Legislative Design" is now available open access in @policysciences.bsky.social

Funded by @erc.europa.eu

doi.org/10.1007/s110....

🎉Check out the first paper of our ERC project DEMOLAW open access in Policy Sciences! @policysciences.bsky.social @mikecowburn.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social @steffiru.bsky.social

Thanks, Roman!

🎉Check out the first paper of our ERC project DEMOLAW open access in Policy Sciences! @policysciences.bsky.social @mikecowburn.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social @steffiru.bsky.social