- E-postRegine.Paul@uib.no
- BesøksadresseChristies gate 175007 Bergen
- PostadressePostboks 78025020 Bergen
My research focuses on comparative public policy governance and is broadly situated in interpretive and critical policy analysis, and inspired by constructivist political sociology as well as cultural political economy. I explore the interactions and effects of norms, meaning-making and more material structures in public policy. My empirical expertise is in migration governance, risk analysis and risk regulation, and the use of artificial intelligence technologies in public administrations.
I am a co-editor of Critical Policy Studies, and I recently published Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations. Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe (short intro here) as well as the co-edited Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (short promotional video here). I currently co-edit the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (Elgar).
I am course responsible for research design (AORG 332) and give lectures on European integration and multi-level goverance, public policy, AI and statehood, qualitative methods, and political theory.
I am happy to supervise theses in any of my (and neighbouring) areas of expertise.
- (2021). Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations: Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe.
- (2021). The governance and politics of migration: a conceptual-analytical map. 1-23. I:
- (2021). Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- (2021). Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- (2020). Why regulators assess risk differently: Regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU. Regulation & Governance.
- (2020). The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe. Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 21-39.
- (2020). Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking. Der moderne Staat. 124-142.
- (2019). Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states. Socio-Economic Review. 393-412.
- (2019). Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU Migration governance? European Security. 393-412.
- (2019). The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies. 19 sider.
- (2017). Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control. Journal of European Integration. 689-706.
- (2016). Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French, and German flooding policies. Journal of Risk Research. 1043-1062.
- (2016). Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 1631-1650.
- (2016). Against all odds? Explaining the diffusion of risk-based regulation in Germany’s federal system. Der moderne Staat. 325-352.
- (2015). Risk-based regulation in continental Europe? Explaining the corporatist turn to risk in German work safety policies. European Policy Analysis. 5-33.
- (2013). Strategic contextualisation: free movement, labour migration policies and the governance of foreign workers in Europe. Policy Studies. 122-141.
- (2013). Migration, mobility and rights regulation in the EU. Policy Studies. 113-121.
- (2013). Complex stratification: Understanding European Union governance of migrant rights. Regions and Cohesion. 56-85.
- (2012). Limits of the competition state: The cultural political economy of European labour migration policies. Critical Policy Studies. 37-401.