Workshop on administrative burdens in the Americas, October 28-30, 2026 in Mexico City. With @fnietomorales.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @thepeoplelab.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Bloomberg Center, Colegio de México & CIDE. Support for travel costs available. CfP tinyurl.com/k2xz28fr
“His voice is both sharp and accessible, a rare combination in the academy.”
What a nice compliment by @catherinedevries.bsky.social 🙏
She interviewed me about how and why I write? Things I hadn’t thought so much about before this interview. Read the whole series!
A theory of policy advisory system quality: Hirschman 2.0 or what makes for good policy advice?
Congratulations to @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social on authoring one of our top 10 most cited articles of 2025!
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1332/0305...
Just out in Early View and OA in Policy Design & Practice - "Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs" by Michael Howlett &Andrea Migone
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡📖New to the blog!
Read about the latest research from Libby Maman, with coauthors Libby Maman, @jacintjc.bsky.social, David Levi Faur, Edoardo Guaschino, Rahel Schomaker and Esther Van-Zimmeren!
policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/09/17/m...
Issue 103(3) contains a special issue exploring Accountability and Governance. The introduction to the special issue is a great read! doi.org/10.1111/padm...
“Bad governance in Australia and how to mitigate it”
… by re-separating political and civil service roles once again.
Nice paper from Keith Dowding, Marija Taflaga
doi.org/10.1111/1467... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I wrote this short piece for the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Public Policy blog, to accompany my comments in a plenary session at the EGPA conference on August 28.
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
JJPS abstract discussing the partisan fights over COVID-19 vaccination in Taiwan and the impact on vaccine choice, highlighting findings from a 2022 survey of Taiwanese respondents.
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
Beyond #COVID19 vaccine acceptance: survey evidence from Taiwan - cup.org/4kD6qBy
"partisan fights on the vaccination against COVID-19 in Taiwan centred on its brand choice rather than acceptance"
- Yun-Yeh Chiang & Jason Kuo
Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.
As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.
New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
We are very much living in an era of Administrative Burdens: Policymaking by Other Means.
It sucks, but it is also much harder to deny exactly what is happening. We are at least able to observe and call out the hypocrisy behind terrible policy policy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MH2...
🎉 Exciting news! My latest paper has just been published in #JPART @jpart1991.bsky.social.
Titled “Exploring the Influence of Administrative Capacities on Administrative Burdens”
Click here to learn more: academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
Aquí ando también! Saludos!
Felicidades a Mauricio Dussauge y Alberto Cañas por su nuevo libro sobre los temas emergentes en las disciplinas de administración y políticas públicas
Volume 27 issue 5 now out, featuring 10 articles (3 open access), and the work of @tobiasbach.bsky.social @verschuerebram.bsky.social @ixchelperezduran.bsky.social and many others! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/2...
While examining the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public salience, this new study by G. Bazzan, C. S. Vogeler, and J. Kuenzler investigates the conditions for successful implementation of pesticide reduction policies. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpol
¡Ya salió nuestro libro Sobre la responsabilidad pública!
Distintas voces analizan qué implica ejercer responsabilidad en el servicio público y cómo se conecta con los retos de las democracias liberales.
Disponible en librerías, Amazon o libros.colmex.mx 📚
"Unpacking Approaches to Digitalization Strategy" by Jakob Kühler, Tobias Polzer, Isabella Proeller, Sabine Kuhlmann, & Justine Marienfeldt introduces a new framework for analyzing municipal digitalization strategies. doi.org/10.1111/padm...
Alexander Gamerdinger & Johann Ole Willers trace how hybrid experts shaped EU AI ethics in the insurance sector, aligning ethical principles with professional power.
📄 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
L’intervention des cabinets de conseil privés dans l’élaboration des politiques de santé publique : une revue exploratoire
droit.cairn.info/revue-intern... @agencerecherche.bsky.social @kristofdecoster.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @danielbeland.bsky.social @rvandepas.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Public Administration #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD in political science, public administration, or closely related field
🏫 @ipz.bsky.social
⌛ Thursday 15 May
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
What might this mean for scientific agencies? Agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) cannot meet their statutorily mandated scientific missions if politics, rather than scientific expertise, drive decision-making. Federally supported science has been so successful, in no small part, because agency staff are typically expert scientists beholden to ensuring that the agencies deliver world-class science. Now, many could be turned into political appointees. The proposed policy defines grantmaking positions as “policy-making,” which includes “drafting of funding opportunity announcements, evaluation of grant applications, or recommending or selecting grant recipients.” This definition, which neatly matches agencies’ own definitions for certain career staff, would include most NIH program officers and NSF program directors.
If you're upset about the attacks at NSF/NIH and other science agencies, Trump is now flooding them with political appointees rather than the scientists you're used to working with. Politics, rather than science, will now govern them. My piece in Science w/@donmoyn www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I was interviewed for the new Mexican journal "Revista Latinoamericana sobre Democracia" (in Spanish).
Check out our new publication with Adriana Cerdeira, 'Reputational Pragmatism at the European Central Bank,' in New Political Economy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#RegulatoryGovernance #Reputation #GreenCentralBanking #sustainability #ECB #ClimateChange
Comparto un artículo en el que reviso los textos sobre la erosión democrática durante el gobierno de AMLO. En otras palabras, sistematizo los trabajos que argumentan que AMLO provocó un deterioro en la de por sí problemática democracia en México.
convergencia.uaemex.mx/article/view...
¿Por qué es importante la transparencia algorítmica y qué podemos hacer al respecto? Muy invitados a leer por qué creo que necesitamos normas que regulen la divulgación de información sobre los sistemas automatizados de toma de decisiones en el sector público
www.openglobalrights.org/why-does-alg...
My department at Southampton is offering a 2 day summer school June 23-24 on “Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment and recovery.” Not only is this free to attend, but travel support may be available. Spots are limited.
www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...
Suena tan dejà vu desde México...
