Project description
Enhancing the public sector’s ability to tackle administrative overburdening
Public administrations in advanced democracies are overwhelmed by increasing rules and stagnant resources, leading to poor policy outcomes and inconsistent services. The EU-funded SUPA project aims to enhance the public sector’s ability to tackle the growing issue of administrative overburdening by improving decision-making procedures to reduce administrative burdens and reforming structures to manage regulatory growth effectively. The project will analyse rule growth and its impact on administration in Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands, and the EU. The project will evaluate ‘rule-offsetting’ schemes and explore legal design principles to prevent rule growth, assess policy impacts on administration, and share findings with public authorities.
Objective
"The “Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies“ (SUPA) Consortium originates from the observation that public administrations in advanced democracies are increasingly overburdened. Administrative overburdening arises from a continuous increase in the number of rules that require implementation and the relative stagnation in administrative capacities. This discrepancy between the rules up for implementation and the administrative resources available results in suboptimal policy outcomes, low-quality public services, and inconsistent implementation practices. In view of this assessment, it is the central objective of SUPA to examine strategies for enhancing the capabilities of the public sector to cope with the escalating challenges of administrative overburdening. To this end, SUPA pursues two interrelated objectives: The first one is to examine how decision-making procedures and practices can be improved to limit the overall burdens placed on the administration. The second goal is to explore how administrative structures can be reformed to manage ongoing rule growth effectively. SUPA examines patterns of rule growth and the resulting administrative changes and challenges in six European States (Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands) and the European Union. Based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, SUPA (1) evaluates the effectiveness of so-called ""rule-offsetting"" schemes; (2) investigates how legislators can embed legal design principles to prevent unintended rule growth cascades; (3) assesses how policy growth affects the underlying administrative structures; and (4) examines citizens' experience and operational challenges linked to different ways of distributing implementation burdens across public authorities. SUPA has formed collaboration agreements with multiple public authorities, ensuring that the Consortium's findings can be directly transferred to both policy-makers and administrators in the field."
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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0313 Oslo
Norway
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