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

• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Cobbe, Jennifer (2024). Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. (ekstern lenke)
• de Freitas Boullosa, Rosana; Paul, Regine; Smith-Carrier, Tracy (2024). Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Cobbe, Jennifer (2024). Introduction to the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Vantage Points for Critical Inquiry. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2024). The politics of regulating AI technologies: towards AI competition states. (ekstern lenke)

2023

• Paul, Regine (2023). European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk-based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market. (ekstern lenke)
• de Freitas Boullosa, Rosana; Paul, Regine; Smith-Carrier, Tracy (2023). Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies. (ekstern lenke)

2022

• Dodge, Jennifer; Elgert, Laureen; Paul, Regine (2022). On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2022). Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy. (ekstern lenke)
• Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David; Paul, Regine et al. (2022). True to Type? How Governance Traditions Shaped Responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK, and USA. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2022). The Comparative Politics of Migration Governance in Europe. (ekstern lenke)

2021

• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Lenner, Katharina (2021). Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2021). Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations: Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Lenner, Katharina (2021). The governance and politics of migration: a conceptual-analytical map. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Paul, Regine; Borraz, Olivier; et., al (2020). Why regulators assess risk differently: Regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2020). Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David (2020). The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe. (ekstern lenke)

2019

• Paul, Regine (2019). The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David et al. (2019). Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Roos, Christof (2019). Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU Migration governance?. (ekstern lenke)

2017

• Paul, Regine (2017). Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control. (ekstern lenke)

2016

• Paul, Regine; Bouder, Frederic Emmanuel; Wesseling, Mara (2016). Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French, and German flooding policies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2016). Against all odds? Explaining the diffusion of risk-based regulation in Germany’s federal system. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2016). Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies. (ekstern lenke)

2015

• Paul, Regine (2015). Risk-based regulation in continental Europe? Explaining the corporatist turn to risk in German work safety policies. (ekstern lenke)

2013

• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma (2013). Complex stratification: Understanding European Union governance of migrant rights. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2013). Strategic contextualisation: free movement, labour migration policies and the governance of foreign workers in Europe. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma (2013). Migration, mobility and rights regulation in the EU. (ekstern lenke)

2012

• Paul, Regine (2012). Limits of the competition state: The cultural political economy of European labour migration policies. (ekstern lenke)

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