🚨🎉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....
Constantin, Roman, and Steffen at the Aarhus University Political Science Department.
@kaplaner.bsky.social and @steffenhurka.bsky.social had the privilege to present and discuss the DEMOLAW project at the University of Aarhus. DEMOLAW thanks @rsenninger.bsky.social and the entire department of political science for the kind invitation, the hospitality, and the great feedback!
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Constantin Kaplaner @kaplaner.bsky.social , Cristoph Knill & Yves Steinbach (ISV)
🔎 Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States
📖 Open access in JPART
doi.org/10.1093/jopa...
The EPA’s Acid Rain Program shows how more policy can often mean less enforcement write @kaplaner.bsky.social and @cknill.bsky.social of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Yves Steinebach of the University of Oslo
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Title and abstract
On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision:
A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025
DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs
This week, we're in Madrid for #EPSA2025 where @kaplaner.bsky.social will present our first empirical research paper "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Caputring Legislative Design Choice in Democratic Systems" on Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05).
Want to know what I've been up to in 2025?
This is the new ERC project working with @steffenhurka.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social & @steffiru.bsky.social
Meet the DEMOLAW-Team! Constantin Kaplaner (@kaplaner.bsky.social), Stefanie Rueß (@steffiru.bsky.social), myself, Amelie Sieber and Mike Cowburn (@mikecowburn.bsky.social). So much looking forward to the years ahead!
Follow us at @demolaw.bsky.social!
Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes.
Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP!
Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Come and join us! We are recruiting a researcher (with PhD) for a three-year position as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 16 December 2024.
Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers
Promising news for the EU electoral connection! 🗳️🇪🇺
Our study on the 2024 EP election shows that voters are engaging with information relevant to the European Parliament's actual powers.
Hello BlueSky, we're here!
And we get started with a pluralistic starter pack with researchers doing methods in social sciences! Self-nominations are more than welcome
go.bsky.app/Ht7XKWk
I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp
Thrilled to share that our article (with C. Knill & Y. Steinebach) is now published open access at @jeppjournal.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
If you're into policy integration, take a look. We map intersectoral patterns in ~90k legal documents covering 3 decades of EU policy making.
Important EUPLEX update!
The EUPLEX dataset now contains data on Commission proposals AND final texts.
30 year time period: 1993 - 2023
Download the dataset at euplex.org/data
Read the data intro article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@kaplaner.bsky.social
The European Research Council awarded me a Consolidator Grant worth almost 2 million € for the DEMOLAW project. What a huge honor and privilege. I'm grateful to so many people who provided me with feedback and support along the way - you know who you are.
