Articles by Yves Steinebach

March 13, 2026

Are EU climate policies becoming too complex to succeed? 

Yves Steinebach
Steffen Hurka and Yves Steinebach reveal that EU climate legislation has become so complex that even well-resourced member states struggle to put it into practice. Longer, more detailed laws create implementation failures regardless of administrative capacity, suggesting the EU's climate ambitions may be undermined by how laws are written
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Yves Steinebach
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Oslo

Yves' primary research interests focus on the analysis of the effectiveness of public policies and governing institutions.

His work has been published in leading journals in the field of political science and public administration, including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Public Administration Review, and The Journal of Public Administration Theory and Research.

He is the author of three books published by Cambridge University Press, most recently:

Triage Bureaucracy: The Organizational Challenge of Implementing Growing Policy Stocks
(Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Yves is co-editor of the journal Regulation and Governance and leads a research consortium comprising five European universities on the topic of Sustaining Public Administration in Advanced Democracies, funded by the European Commission.

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