Publications
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies
The growth of rules in modern democracies burdens citizens, businesses, and administrative bodies. To address this, many governments …
A review of national climate policies via existing databases
Various databases have been developed to track national climate policy efforts. These datasets facilitate comparisons across countries …
Do Governments put their Money where their Mouth is? Policy Adoption and Administrative Resource Provision in 15 OECD Countries
Government programs often fail because administrative actors receive insufficient financial and personnel resources for their …
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios
Research on the European Union over the years has significantly advanced our understanding of the domestic impact of EU policies. …
Testing Theories of Policy Growth: Public Demands, Interest Group Politics, Electoral Competition, and Institutional Fragmentation
Policy growth is a ubiquitous feature of modern democracies that has attracted increased attention in political science and beyond. …
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries
This article analyses the role of political parties in policy accumulation. We study this relationship in the area of social policy. …
Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities
Democratic governments produce more policies than they can effectively implement. Yet, this gap between the number of policies …
Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies
Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not expanded in lockstep with policy production. …
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance
Democratic governments have constantly added new policies to existing policy stocks to confront societal, economic, and environmental …
The age of regulatory agencies: tracking differences and similarities over countries and sectors
Over the recent decades, regulatory agencies have become very common in most parts of the world. They have emerged as specialized …
Riding the wave: Predicting the use of the bike-sharing system in Barcelona before and during COVID-19
To simultaneously promote health, economic, and environmental sustainability, a number of cities worldwide have established …
Drug Legalization, Elite Support, and Government Effectiveness in Latin America
In Latin America, the legalization of drugs—where it occurred—has been driven mainly by elites, although much attention has been placed …
CEO selection in intergovernmental organizations: the clash between control and efficiency in governance
CEO selection is a crucial governance function influencing and driving the strategic direction of organizations. Extant research has …
Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany
One of the greatest achievements of the EU is the freedom of movement between member states offering citizens equal rights in EU member …
Differential discrimination against mobile EU citizens: experimental evidence from bureaucratic choice settings
EU citizens have rights when living in a member state other than their own. Bureaucratic discrimination undermines the operation of …
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective
This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its impact on policy effectiveness in a comparative …
Working time preferences among women: challenging assumptions on underemployment, work centrality and work life balance
This research examines the working time preferences of women with different stable schedules working 20 hours per week in manufacturing …
Who Puts a Price on Carbon, Why and How? A Global Empirical Analysis of Carbon Pricing Policies
This article examines why some countries put a price on greenhouse gas emissions while others do not; and why some carbon pricing …
System Dynamics of Policy Change: Overcoming Some Blind Spots of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
In this article, we analyze dynamics of policy change from the perspective of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET). In particular, we …
Extracting configurations of values mixing scores from experts and ignoramus using Bayesian modelling
The article proposes a method for producing configurations of values in firms. Values have an impact in the long-term survival of …
Measuring the impact of an organizational inclusion programme on absence among employees with disabilities: A quasi‐experimental design
This article presents research on an organizational inclusion programme aiming to reduce absenteeism due to illness and injury among …
Fonts d'informació i indicadors per estudis internacionals
Book to be used as a teaching resource for an introductory course on data sources and indicators for international relations and …
Agency proliferation and the globalization of the regulatory state: Introducing a data set on the institutional features of regulatory agencies
State structures have experienced significant transformation with the spread of globalization. This paper examines how to measure one …
The Power of EI Competencies Over Intelligence and Individual Performance: A Task-Dependent Model
Prior research on emotional intelligence (EI) has highlighted the use of incremental models that assume EI and general intelligence (or …
Hypocrisy as a crisis response? Assessing changes in talk, decisions, and actions of the European Commission in EU environmental policy
In this article, we assess the changing role of the European Commission in EU environmental policy. In line with organizational theory, …
Religious tides: The time‐variant effect of religion on morality policies
Morality policies evince a much closer relationship to religious doctrines than is the case in other policy areas and hence constitute …
The Governance of Goal-Directed Networks and Network Tasks: An Empirical Analysis of European Regulatory Networks
In this article, we answer the research question “What factors affect the structural complexity of network administrative organizations …
A matter of timing: The religious factor and morality policies
The question of whether or not religion accounts for variance in the governance of moral issues, between and within countries over …
Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth
This paper asks whether strong bureaucracies can effectively constrain the continuously growing stock of rules in modern democracies …
ggmcmc: Analysis of MCMC Samples and Bayesian Inference
ggmcmc is an R package for analyzing Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations from Bayesian inference. By using a well known example of …
The emergence of Regulatory Regionalism: transnational networks and the diffusion of regulatory agencies within regions
The regulatory regionalism approach has increasingly claimed that a new mode of regional governance is emerging globally. Regional …
Are regulatory agencies independent in practice? Evidence from board members in Spain
Regulation & Governance published the article “Are regulatory agencies independent in practice? Evidence from board members …
EI competencies as a related but different characteristic than intelligence
Amid the swarm of debate about emotional intelligence (EI) among academics are claims that cognitive intelligence, or general mental …
Polítiques públiques i administració electrònica
Book to be used as a teaching resource for an introductory course on public policy and e-Government.
The Impact of e‐Government Promotion in Europe: Internet Dependence and Critical Mass
Governments and public bodies have been fostering the development of e‐Government services during the last decade, promoting more and …
The global diffusion of regulatory agencies: channels of transfer and stages of diffusion
Comparative Political Studies published the article “The global diffusion of regulatory agencies: channels of transfer and stages …
Electronic Publishing, Knowledge Sharing and Open Access: A New Environment for Political Science
In this article, we present an overview of the major changes occurring in electronic publishing, with a focus on open access. We shall …
Which Internet Policy? Assessing Regional Initiatives in Spain
We examine the effect of public policy on the growth of Internet use. Using a decentralized country—Spain—as an example, we compare the …
Planificant la Societat de la Informació
An analysis of the initiatives stimulated by public administrations in Spain.