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Hi and welcome to my homepage!
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich and a package leader in the SUPA Horizon Project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research focuses on the growth of regulation, particularly examining their interplay with legislation. Additionally, my work has been awarded with the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for an outstanding paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, and the Giandomenico Majone Prize for an exceptional paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.
Unveiling European Union Regulatory Design (EUREG)
My Marie Curie project, "EUREG - Unveiling EU Regulatory Design: A Content-Oriented Analysis of Regulation in the European Union", explores the variation in regulatory designs across EU policy areas. It examines the impact of factors such as euroscepticism, institutional dynamics, and sectoral characteristics on design choices and investigates how these designs influence the transposition dynamics of EU regulations.
Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies (SUPA)
The "Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) project, funded by the EU Horizon programme (2021-2027),, examines how public administrations can better cope with growing regulatory and administrative burdens. As package leader of Work Package 3, we focus on how legal design features shape rule growth by analyzing legal texts to assess complexity and discretion, and by classifying rules to trace patterns of regulatory expansion.
Selected
Publications
Alon Barkat, S., S. Gilad, N. Kosti, and I. Shpaizman. 2025. Career Civil Servants’ Socially Embedded Responses to Democratic Backsliding. Perspectives on Politics.
Kosti, Nir. 2024. Conceptualization and Measuring Regulatory Discretion: Text Analysis of 120 Years of British Legislation, Regulation & Governance, 18(3), 761-779.
Contact me
Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Oettingenstraße 67, 80538 Munich
Room: 176
nir.kosti[at]gmail.com
+49 89 2180 9038
