Political scientist · LMU Munich

The growth, architecture, and simplification of regulation.

I am a political scientist studying the growth of regulation and its interplay with legislation. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich, my project EUREG examines variation in regulatory design across EU policy areas. I also lead Work Package 3 of the EU Horizon SUPA project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examining how legal design features, such as discretion and complexity, shape rule growth.

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September 2026 Call for papers for a panel I'm co-chairing on Rule Growth: Measuring, Explaining, and Governing Regulatory Expansion at DVPW 2027. Submit an abstract by 31 October 2026.
July 2026 Presenting at the ECPR Standing Group on the EU in Catania, co-chairing and discussing panels on regulatory growth and simplification.

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Career Civil Servants' Socially Embedded Responses to Democratic Backsliding

Alon Barkat, S., Gilad, S., Kosti, N. & Shpaizman, I. · Perspectives on Politics, 2025