Giulia Sandri

At LMU Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the team identifies administrative “Achilles’ heels” and develop proposals for adaptive responses.

Team: C. Knill @cknill.bsky.social, A. Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social, F. Findeisen, D. Zink @dionyszink.bsky.social .

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.

Södertörn Uni. @sodertornshogskola.bsky.social studies how rule-offsetting schemes work, combining theory, coding, and interviews with policymakers & civil society. Goal: effective and legitimate rule design.

Team: Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social , Miranda Thulin, Swapnil Vashishtha.

The University of Barcelona @ub.edu team turns archives, APIs, web-scraped material, and legal documents into machine-readable data using text-as-data and NLP — building a dataset on rule growth across the EU.
Team: Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, David García García @davidgg.bsky.social , Prachee Arora.

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? 💡

The European Citizen Action Service @ecas-europe.bsky.social connects the project to citizens, helping us understand how rule growth affects everyday life.

Team: Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social, Claire Morot‑Sir, Nicolò Triacca.

The Changing Information Landscape and the Rise of Digital Technology: Friend or Foe of Representative Democracy? This chapter analyzes the digitalization of the public sphere in terms of a shift toward digital media consumption and supply. It argues it presents significant challenges for democracy, as it potentially exacerbates inequalities in participation and representation...

🚨nouvelle ublication avec @giuliasandri.bsky.social et F. Von Nostitz !
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

After 2 intense with academics & practioners, here are my takeaway messages:
1. People do not care about technology but purpose.
2. Digital tools must feel natural.
3. Barriers might be simpler than you think.
#Relink2 @lucaskins.bsky.social @hendriknahr.bsky.social @giuliasandri.bsky.social

How can we bettet connect citizens, political organizations, and public institutions through digital technologies? On my way to Brussels again... #Relink2 #CA23114 #BrIAS @ramonv.bsky.social @giuliasandri.bsky.social @lucaskins.bsky.social brias.be/index.php/ev...

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!

Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda The government has confirmed further reforms to overhaul the planning system and put growth at the heart of the statutory consultee system.

Tired of ‘red tape’? UK planning reforms echo past failures like the "one-in, three-out" scheme.

One of our rerearches in progress shows why they fail:
➡️ Narrow Focus
➡️ Weak Enforcement
➡️ Political Reality

Result? Rules keep growing. Lasting reform needs smarter governance for true growth.
#SUPA

📈 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 🏛️✨

We’re excited to share that our empirical research from Work Package 3 of the EU-CIEMBLY project is now accessibly on Zenodo!

👉 Explore the datasets and explanatory note here: zenodo.org/communities/...

📢Join Us at Cyprus Forum – October 1–3 2025! 📢

🕥 Our Session: October 3, 10:25–11:25
💡 Title: Power to the People: Unleashing the Future of Citizen Democracy

🔗 Reserve your seat now: 2025.cyprusforum.cy

#cyprusforum2025 #citizendemocracy #europe #events #HorizonEurope

🗳️ Term of the Week: Deliberative Democracy
Process of active engagement and direct deliberation by citizens amongst themselves or with the participation of other stakeholders on a substantive policy or legislative area.
Explore all terms in our glossary:
👉 www.eu-ciembly.eu/en/glossary/...

And a special thanks to the roundtable speakers @giuliasandri.bsky.social (@ecas-europe.bsky.social & @sciencepoulb.bsky.social), @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (FIDE), and Mara Almeida (JRC), and to the moderator @tverthe.bsky.social

Great event co-hosted with BrIAS on Challenges to Democracy. Grateful to all panelists for their insights and to everyone who joined us for the lively and inspiring discussions! @dfuturevub.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth.

The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract.

Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome.

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

⚡ Big news! ⚡ We're thrilled to announce that are teaming up with @psampg.bsky.social to host our *first* joint conference on "Navigating Digital Democracy" 📩 at Bournemouth University on 8-9 Jan, with an online pre-conf session on the 7 Jan - submission deadline is the 26 Sep more details in 🧵

Come see our work on using LLMs to track political science research methods at APSA at 4pm today!

We find the latest LLMs beat graduate student RAs at extracting information from academic papers

📊 S. Lecornu entre à Matignon avec 16% d'opinions favorables et 40% défavorables - pas loin d'un Français sur deux (44%) n'a à ce stade pas d'opinion précise sur le Premier ministre et son action.

📊 E. Macron recule fortement au sein de son propre socle électoral : il n'y a plus qu'un sympathisant Renaissance-MoDem-Horizons sur deux pour juger positivement son action (54%, -18). Les niveau sont très bas chez les proches de LR (25%), et abyssaux au PS et au RN (9%).

📊 Dans la dernière vague du baromètre @ipsosfrance.bsky.social pour La Tribune Dimanche, la popularité d'E. Macron chute nettement (17%, -7), atteignant son plus bas niveau depuis son entrée à l'Elysée. www.latribune.fr/la-tribune-d...

Super inspiring workshop on AI and political agency at the university of Valencia !🤩📲💻 I presented on research trends & foresight on social impact of AI

On 10–11 Sept, I’ll be presenting at the University of Valencia workshop on Political Agency between Human & AI. Looking forward to debating how AI is reshaping politics, democracy & civil society. #AI #Democracy

Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...

We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Thank you ☺️

Digital Democracy This chapter explores the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on digital democracy, focusing on four main areas: citizenship, participation, representation and the public sphere. It traces the ...

How is AI rewriting the rules of democracy? 🤖🗳️
With @claudionovelli.bsky.social (Yale), we explore AI’s impact on citizenship, participation, representation & the public sphere.
Part of A Companion to Digital Ethics (eds. L. Floridi & M. Taddeo)
Read here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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