- 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 The European Union and International Organisations (AORG 107). I teach on European integration, multi-level goverance, public policy, AI regulation, uses of AI in public poliy and administration, migration governance, qualitative and comparative methods.
I am happy to supervise MA and BA theses in any of these broad areas of expertise.
In 2022, I was awarded the Status as Excellent Teacher (femragende underviser) by the Social Science Faculty.
(only publications since 2015 listed here, for more details see my researchgate account)
Monographies
2021: Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administration. Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe. London: Routledge (Series ‘Studies in Governance and Public Policy’)
2015: The Political Economy of Border Drawing. Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books (paperback edition published in 2019)
Edited volumes
2021: Handbook of the Governance and Politics of Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner)
2017: Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Marc Mölders, Alfons Bora, Michael Huber and Peter Münte)
Peer-reviewed articles
2022: 'Can Critical Policy Studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy', Critical Policy Studies 16(4)
2022: 'Peace and prosperity for the digital age? The colonial political economy of European AI governance', IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 41(2), with Emma Carmel
2020: ‘Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking’, der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 13(1), 124-142. doi: 10.3224/dms.v13i1.11
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 [Impact Factor: 2.792], online first 19 May, with Olivier Borraz et al., doi: 10.1111/rego.12320
2020: ‘The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe’, Governance[Impact Factor: 3.643] (part of a special issue ‘Varieties of regulatory capitalism’, edited by M. Guidi, I. Guardiancich and D. Levi-Faur), with Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt
2019: ‘Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU Migration governance?’, European Security [Impact Factor: 1.453], 28(4): 393-412, with Christof Roos
2019: ‘Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states’, Socio-Economic Review , 17(4): 393-412, with Henry Rothstein et al.
2017: ‘Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control.’ Journal of European Integration , 39(6): 689-706.
2016: ‘Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies [Impact Factor: 2.297], 42(10), 1631-1650.
2016: ‘Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French and German flooding policies.’ Journal of Risk Research , 19(8): 1043-1062, with Fréderic Bouder and Mara Wesseling.
Book chapters
2022: ‘True to type? How governance traditions shaped responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK and USA’, in Brown, P. and J. Zinn (Hrsg.) COVID-19 – From the perspective of the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, London: Routledge, pp. 115-143, with Henry Rothstein, David Demeritt und Li Wang.
2022: ‘The comparative politics of migration governance in Europe.’ Anghel, Veronica and E. Jones (eds.) Developments in European Politics III, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 137-150.
2021: ‘The governance and politics of international migration: A conceptual-analytical map.’ Carmel, E., Lenner, K. and R. Paul (eds.) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner.
2019: ‘The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies’. Carmel, E. (ed.): Governance Analysis: A New Approach to Politics, Policy and Practice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 93-111.
2018: ‘How ‘low-skilled’ migrant workers are made: border-drawing in migration policy’, Rijken, C. and T. de Lange (eds. ) Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low Waged Migrant Workers, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-78.
2018: ‘Risk as a governance tool in European border control’, Weinar, A., Bonjour, S., and L. Zhyznomirska (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge, p. 227-238.
2017: ‘Shaping society: New modes of social change in regulation and governance? An introduction.’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Marc Mölders, p. 1-12.
2017: ‘Risk: new issue or new tool in regulation and governance research?’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 59-74.
- (2024). Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth. Critical Policy Studies.
- (2023). European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk-based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market. Regulation & Governance.
- (2023). Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies. Critical Policy Studies. 1-3.
- (2022). True to Type? How Governance Traditions Shaped Responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK, and USA. -100 sider.
- (2022). The Comparative Politics of Migration Governance in Europe. -136 sider.
- (2022). On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil. Critical Policy Studies. 131-132.
- (2022). Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy. Critical Policy Studies. 497-509.
- (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.