Firms across the globe are affected by red tape, but there is little academic research on how
country‐level institutions shape red tape perceptions. Drawing on institutional theory, we …

Do more rules improve overall policy performance? To answer this question, we look at rule
growth in the area of environmental policy from an aggregate perspective. We argue that …

The claim that perceived organizational red tape hampers public services has become a
central theme in public administration research. Surprisingly, however, few scholars have …

Public administration scholarship is facing a crisis of legitimacy, as academic research is
viewed as both increasingly irrelevant for practice and methodologically underdeveloped. In …

This paper asks whether strong bureaucracies can effectively constrain the continuously
growing stock of rules in modern democracies through organizational coordination and …

Understanding where (ineffective) organizational rules come from is of vital importance for
both public administration scholars and practitioners. Yet little is known about the underlying …

This article examines the impact of politics on governmental rule production. Traditionally,
explanations of rule dynamics have focused on nonpolitical factors such as the self …

Sustainable degrowth offers effective alternative strategies for tackling social and
environmental problems such as climate crisis, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and …

Rules are dynamic entities whose implementation is shaped by context, resources, and
institutions. Variations in this implementation influence the functionality and effectiveness of …

The socio economic model of the European Union at the core of which stands social market
principles, increased state participation in the economy and as a result high bureaucracy …